Yes. As I learned as a young kid, you can pop off the individual cubes with a screwdriver and reassemble in a solved state. I consider this method “brute force”.
Related only tangentially. Doctor recommended a vitamin D supplement. Couple years later after terrible acid reflux, I eliminate prescribed medication X which solves 80% of reflux symptoms and pain. After self testing the remaining 20% of symptoms were caused by the vitamin D gummy supplement, tomatoes, and onions.
So yeah vitamin d might help on one hand, but cause it’s own issues in different areas.
No more vitamins for me. Better to eat well and get the occasional bit of Sun.
I think it means configuring a new SIM on a new phone controlled by the thief with Cody Brown's Verizon cell phone number. This would allow the thief to receive SMS authentication texts from Coinbase.
Mobile phone carriers are permitting phone numbers to be ported to a new phone held by a thief with nothing more than a billing address. The idea behind adding that "don't port under any circumstance" message is to force an in-store visit with some type of legal identification before a phone number is ported to a new device.
If you don't use SMS to secure your bank account, then maybe this advice is overkill. But if you are using a service that holds a large part of your assets and can only 2FA with SMS, then you really ought to make taking over your mobile phone number as hard as possible.