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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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minerpumpkin
on 07/05/2015, 11:07:32 UTC
trezor or case have other attack vectors

Oh, what are their weaknesses? I was not aware that a trezor had any ?

I believe people were able to extract private keys by measuring electric noise or something, that's being created by the processor while processing the keys. It really is quite a remarkable method, I don't know how easy it is to apply it, though!

or the device can simply be tempered with during delivery or afterwards (in a way that was not foreseen by satoshilabs).

or steal the thing, replace it with a fake to get the PIN and voilá

Huh, I didn't even think about that scenario (replacing the device in order to steal the PIN)... Yeah, hardware wallets seem to have their disabilities, as well. Though I think it is still far more safe to store your coins on one of them, rather than having them available on a regular machine running Windows or any major operating system.