Spammy, trash "news" site posts clickbait!? I'm shocked!

12 word seed phrases, when properly secured, are perfectly safe. If you reveal all the words, then of course it becomes unsafe. A scrambled 12 word seed phrase has only 12! = 479,001,600 possibilities. Add in the fact that on average 93.75% of the possibilities can be discarded for having an incorrect checksum, that only leaves 29,937,600 possibilities which require you to derive an address and check for funds. This is an easy task on even fairly modest home hardware.

The moral of the story is don't scramble (or do any other weird "tricks") to your seed phrase. The chances are either you will achieve nothing useful, or you will go too far the other way and lock yourself out of your wallets. Just write them down and store them safely.

Isn't it general knowledge? A 24 word seed is better than a 12 words. The highest the words the better the security.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-advocate-cracks-known-12-word-seed-phrase-in-minutes
No wonder LOL
25 minutes seem to me a long time that took when you have all words in front of you. It needed to check the combination of the words. I studied combination a long time ago from that sense I think finding all the combinations of 12 words/string should not be very hard for a programmer. Your job is then to check the results with each finding which should not be a hard job too.

It would be harder if the letters of the words were not in correct orders too.

You got it wrong. The news channel/site needs story to keep their visitors engaged. If they don't add suspense then no one is going to click. The title is a perfect example.
It sounds like Bitcoin is finished LOL

Cointelegraph is not a source of knowledge, the technical articles on this site are not accurate or not verified so do not rely on it as a source of information.

12! It is safe for most GPUs to bruteforce, so whoever wants to try bruteforce should pay more to buy more advanced hardware ASCI and thus more time for you to transfer your money.

That's true indeed! It's unsafe to post the 12 seeds words online because if someone is keeping eye on you then that malicious person might be able to crack your wallet with those seeds by conducting a
brute-force attack to steal the Bitcoins out of it. If I'm not wrong then someone's seed phrase is key to the wallet and brute-force attacks can easily own the perfect combination of the seed phrase if those seed words are posted online.

Adding to what o_e_l_e_o said above, I will only give 2 numbers for comparison.

If I give you 12 words (A,B,C,...,L) and ask you to put them in the correct order, then you have 479001600 possible combinations.

However BIP39 consists of 2048 words. So, If you want to guess 12 words out of the 2048 and try to arrange them in the correct order gives you 5,271,537,971,301,488,476,000,309,317,528,177,868,800 (check o_e_l_e_o post below) possible combinations.

The experiment was rediculous to say the least. It could be much more intuitive if the title was "Don't scramble your 12-word seed phrase and rely on this as a backup".


Final Thought:
It is not feasible (for the time being) for a machine to brute force a 12-word seed phrase. Even if 24-words are generally much safer than 12-words, the math clearly show us, that 12-words cannot be brute-forced.
Don't worry about being brute-forced. Worry about backing-up your words properly. Because, as you have seen in the article, knowing the 12 words is much more important than knowing their order. Finally ADD A PASSPHRASE!

Nice try, I'm not going to enter my seed words into a search string

Well, it's not quite as straightforward as that.

A 12 word seed phrase provides 128 bits of entropy. A 24 word seed phrase provides 256 bits of entropy. This much is true. However, all bitcoin private keys provide, at most, 128 bits of security. So the security of the private keys generated by a 24 word seed phrase are identical to the security of the private keys generated by a 12 word seed phrase (provided, of course, that the seed phrases were not generated insecurely).

12! is very easy for most home hardware to bruteforce, as I explained above. Also, ASICs are useless when it comes to brute forcing seed phrases.

Not quite sure how you arrived at your number there, but it's incorrect.

Picking 12 words out of 2048 gives 2048¹² = 5.444*10³⁹
But if you consider the checksum, then the number of valid combinations is 2¹²⁸ = 3.403*10³⁸

Well, I would say that Cointelegraph is not the best website out there, nor the most reliable one but I wouldn't call it spammy trash news website. What's your source of crypto news? I know it won't be one as it shouldn't be but usually, what website(s) do you visit? Your opinion on this task matters because you are a highly valued, knowledgeable member

So, actually, if you post randomly ordered 12 seed words, your wallet gets hacked but if you post randomly ordered 24 seed words, you can feel safe because the probability is still super low.
By the way, it was a little bit interesting, wasn't it? Don't be so hilarious.

I tend not to care whatsoever about what these sites class as "news". If you look at the landing page of CoinTelegraph, CoinIdol, etc. on any given day, the top stories are about price speculation, a whole bunch of shitcoins I don't care about, a whole bunch of centralized exchanges or platforms I don't care about, various celebrities or influences I don't care about, clickbait trash like the article being discussed here, and so on. The amount of actual news on these sites is somewhere between zero and none.

What I do care about is bitcoin's development and new advances, and for that I read the bitcoin-dev mailing list, the lightning-dev mailing list, and any relevant discussions on GitHub. I would also recommend the newsletter from https://bitcoinops.org/.