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Daily Upsider - Monday, June 10th, 2024
Monday, June 10th, 2024
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Today’s Upside
World News
$3M Bitcoin Recovered… Using Time Travel
Electrical engineer Joe Grand and his team successfully hacked into an encrypted file containing 43.6 bitcoins, unlocking a $3 million cryptocurrency wallet and rescuing a man who had forgotten his password 11 years ago.
On May 28, Joe uploaded a video to his YouTube channel, demonstrating how he was hired to access a valuable encrypted file that had been inaccessible since 2013. Michael, whose identity was hidden, contacted Joe last year for help.
Initially, Joe declined to help, stating that trying to guess the password, known as brute-forcing, was impractical. “If we had to try every possible password combination, that’s more than 100 trillion times the number of water drops in the entire world,” Joe explained.
However, a year later, Joe reconsidered because he had found a new method to recover the password. During that time, Bruno had successfully reverse-engineered a password generator and used it to recover the passwords it had created. Using a tool developed by the NSA, they disassembled the code of the password generator, RoboForm, that Michael had used to create his Bitcoin password.
RoboForm is a password management software that creates complex passwords and stores them in an encrypted vault. Michael had used it to create a 20-character password and saved it in an encrypted text file on his computer. Unfortunately, data corruption caused Michael to lose the password, locking him out of his wallet.
Joe discovered that older versions of RoboForm didn’t generate completely random passwords. By setting the time back to 2013, they tricked the program into recreating the same password it had generated years before. Joe and Bruno generated millions of potential passwords, but after getting the correct date, they cracked the code in just a few tries, recovering Michael's $3 million Bitcoin wallet.
Here is the full, fascinating story:
Entertainment
Spectacular Photos Of Unspectacular Things
One of our readers, sent this to us. And we are so happy you did, because these images are spectacular!
I particularly like the fourth one in the list. But all of them are quite good.
Health Sciences
Red Light Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Red Light Therapy –University of Birmingham
Future treatments for spinal cord injuries might involve a device that uses red and near-infrared light to heal nerve connections at the injury site.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a method to deliver light directly to the injury through an implant. During routine post-injury surgeries, doctors could implant this device to treat and repair the spinal cord.
The study found that a specific light dose can significantly improve sensation, movement, and nerve cell regeneration. A five-day treatment with 660nm red light for one minute daily increased cell viability by 45%.
Professor Zubair Ahmed, who led the study, stated that the 660nm light was both neuro-protective and neuro-regenerative.
Using cell models of spinal cord injuries in adult rats, researchers determined the optimal light frequency and duration for maximum functional restoration and nerve cell regrowth, publishing their results in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine.
They also tested light therapy in preclinical models using an implantable device and transcutaneous delivery, where light is applied through the skin. Both methods showed similar results: a one-minute daily dose of 660nm light for seven days reduced tissue scarring and improved functional recovery.
The study also noted reductions in cavities and scarring, increased levels of nerve-regeneration proteins, and better cell connections in the injured spine.
This is the first comparison of transcutaneous and direct light delivery for spinal cord injuries, marking a significant milestone as there are currently no treatments that preserve cells or improve neurological function.
This video has some great advice!
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