New things I think learned from this thread:

• the thief used a blockchain provider instead of an ad-hoc local node, making all the transactions incredibly traceable with (unclear to me) implications about their ability to launder them or keep their identity concealed indefinitely.

• even if they are found out, the previous owners probably won't see a dime back since the vulnerability affects exactly the ability to prove you really were the previous owner.

Unclear which thief since the web3isdoinggreat writeup says there had been up to 15 unique groups doing mass drains by 31/7, maybe the initial 500 wallet sweep was one person or group?

apparently this issue became obvious YEARS AGO since the birthday problem struck a random redditor, who promptly got gaslit that this is completely impossible and it was dismissed. lol. lmao even

Hahaha

All the dice discourse in particular has made this a fun throwback to the days of crypto bros earnestly arguing about which wall in your house you should hide your hand-stamped seed phrase record inside and whether you could trust a published book of truly random numbers over a series of 256 coin flips. Ironically I can only assume that by the time any of the concerns about entropy sources were validated most of them lost their crypto to some combination of get-richer-quicker ponzi schemes and twitter DMs claiming to definitely be FTX tech support.