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#SmartCustody Adversary — User Error

I've spent the last week sharing about the various sorts of “Loss by Mistakes” that can cause you to lose digital assets. #SmartCustody helps you mitigate these risks. Now I want to discuss a final, more general mistake: USER ERROR. (1/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:00 PM

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Christopher Allen

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These are mistakes that aren't covered by other adversaries in this category. It's not Convenience or Process Fatigue (where you ignore your security procedure), it's not Key Fragility (where you lose a seed) and it's not Transaction Error (where you mess up a transfer). (2/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:01 PM

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USER ERROR is every other mistake that you could make that in some way could cost you your digital assets. (3/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:01 PM

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Often, USER ERROR is tied in to other adversaries, to make them even more risky. (5/10)

7/10/2020, 12:15:01 PM

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Leaving your infant to play with your Ledger and finding your keys erased? That's USER ERROR combined with Key Fragility. Drunkenly bragging about your Bitcoin holdings and then getting hacked? That's USER ERROR combined with Correlation & Network Attack, Personal (6/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:01 PM

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This is another adversary that can be defeated with care, time, double-checking, and of course checklists. But it also requires some out-of-the-box thinking. This is where the community can really help each other by sharing the more odd stories. (7/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:02 PM

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For insance, I lost a Ledger once as I forgot to label it and entered the PIN for a different Ledger too many times and thus erased it. A friend of mine left his Trezor on his desk and the cat swept it into the trash basket. What other weird USER ERROR stories do you have? (8/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:02 PM

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Christopher Allen

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Like with other adversaries in this category, you need to be constantly thoughtful and responsible. With decentralization and self-sovereignty, we take over responsibilities from centralized authorities, and we need to prove ourselves worthy of them. (9/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:02 PM

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Christopher Allen

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This is the last #SmartCustody “Loss by Mistakes" adversary. Next week we’ll conclude this series with our last category “Privacy-Related Problems". Let us know if you have found this series useful! (10/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:02 PM

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Do you have your own stories of USER ERROR impacting digital assets to share? Your own solutions or checklists? Let us know! And please consider supporting #SmartCustody. We're working on V2, with multi-sigs and other expansions: https://smartcustody.btcpay.blockchaincommons.com/ (11/11)

7/10/2020, 12:15:02 PM

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