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UK seized new powers starting today [including destroying Monero]

--Police will no longer be required to make an arrest before seizing crypto from a suspect.

--seize anything, such as written passwords, flash drives, or memory sticks

--destroy crypto assets, such as privacy coins, for the "public good", like Monero

--goes into effect today

This has the text copy-pasted from the official UK website, but without having to have your IP address literally connect to the official cybercrime division website, (ironically, we seized their text)

https://rebelnet.me/news/0x02fcc902af8d6cedd9

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Smart way to do it. But if you need to travel and take your data with you, the device itself is at risk of seizure or destruction. Alternately you could reload your needed data backups at your destination when you arrive, say after crossing unfriendly borders, but then you'd want to find the safest most secure way to transfer the data. There are plenty of solutions, but with more and more news like this, most people will need to think a bit more than they have been about their threat model opsec and procedures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's nothing smart about storing seeds digitally on a networked device.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough perspective. What do you favor? Paper wallet? Something like cryptosteel? Hardware wallet? Memorization? Other airgapped digital device solutions? Shamir secret sharing? Something else?

It's always good for others to hear and gather approaches and try to choose amongst them for what may work best.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Just write it down. Paper, steel, whatever, just don't store it digitally. If you're storing something worth more than a hardware wallet, the seed with a good hardware wallet is a good idea. Memorize it if you can, but have it written down somewhere. If you can rip wireless networking out of a device, airgapped notebook or cell phone is fine. If you have a bunch of different people that will need access in the event you can't give them access, and you're concerned about one of them potentially stealing it from you, and they know how to do this kind of stuff, shamir backup is great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It doesn't need to be on a device. You can create a "book" at the local binding store containing 200 samples of "Vogon poetry" ( http://spaceinvaders.epizy.com/vogon.html?i=1 ) . Your seed phrase can be scattered in a memorised pattern within the book. You can bring that book with you anywhere and have multiple copies in different locations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I have taken that into account and have a way around that.