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March 11, 2019, 09:36:55 PM

Ledger Discloses Five Reported Vulnerabilities in Two Models of Trezor Hardware Wallets

Major hardware wallets manufacturer Ledger has unveiled vulnerabilities in its direct competitor Trezor’s devices, according to a report published on Monday, March. 11.
As of press time, Trezor was not immediately available to comment on Ledger’s findings.


https://cointelegraph.com/news/ledger-discloses-five-reported-vulnerabilities-in-two-models-of-trezor-hardware-wallets


(I said it yesterday, every day a new shit...)

Not good, at all. I don’t see why people don’t keep their coins on a paper wallet or on a machine with Bitcoin QT that’s used for nothing apart from storing bitcoin. This kind of shit happens all the time.

Hardware wallets have been lauded a lot for their security, ease of use and practicality.  I thought that, so far, all security vulnerabilities did require some kind of physical access to the hardware device, and of course, if you don't take adequate protections of your seed phrase, then that is an additional vulnerability too.  I hope that the only solution does not end up being paper wallets because there seem to be some difficulties with managing them, too.