Anthropyanthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

Oct 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

honestly? call me crazy but I don't think it's coincidence that the private key was literally 4. I think that's the clearest hint we have that this was either testing infra or a backdoor. (but yes, it could still be coincidence, of course).

https://xkcd.com/221/

edit: this is actually not to say eMudhra/EmSign was in some way malicious, it could've been planted by some spy employee, or be the result of some supply chain attack, etc, it just, comes across incredibly sus I guess.

xkcd comic, it's just text that is a random number function, which returns 4. it shows a comment stating "chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random."

literally the text:
int getRandomNumber()
{
return 4; //chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}