Why wouldn't they just test the frequency of words from the wordlist in
entirety?

On Jan 17, 2018 5:10 PM, "Weiwu Zhang via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> 2018-01-09 19:20 GMT+08:00 Ronald van der Meer via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
> > After reviewing some bitcoin improvement proposals, I noticed that one
> of the words that can be found on the BIP39 English wordlist is “satoshi”.
> > I suggest removing this word from the list so it’s less obvious that
> it’s a bitcoin seed when found by a malicious third party.
>
> If a malicious third party discovers a word list that look like a
> seed, they would try using it as Bitcoin seed first anyway, with or
> without finding the word 'satoshi' in it. The security threat is that
> a malicious third party may index what they found and test every
> occurrence of 'satoshi' for a lead to a seed.
>
> For example, a hard-disk recycling service would add this word to
> their salvage tools. Any successfully hacked gmail account will be
> 'satoshi' tested too.
>
> So I see this as a reasonable improvement:)
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