Quote from: BitChief on January 29, 2018, 10:31:55 AM

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Quote from: charliegengos on January 29, 2018, 07:43:15 AM

Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask your perspective about having ledger. There's a lot of rumor that even brand new ledgers hacked because of it's fake seals. Checking your insights about this one.

You worried what happened to this guy? https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7obot7/all_my_cryptocurrency_stolen/All my cryptocurrency stolen (self.ledgerwallet).
I'll add what others verified that nano ledger s is very safe. Just purchase directly from www.ledgerwallet.com or with any of them www.ledgerwallet.com/retailers

Quote from: boosteroid8 on January 29, 2018, 08:06:02 AM

Thak you for advice, I wan't buy Ledger but I am afraid that it will broke and I will lose my money(

Don't buy to resellers on ebay, buy to ledgers main website or retailers.

I am reading in the link you provided that Ledger CEO and CTO officially took care of that matter and are helping that poor guy file the complaint to the police. He knows who sold him the Ledger so chances are very high the police will be able to track down who was the scammer (if it was a seller, or some other middleman) and hopefully get the money back to the poor guy.

The lesson learnt is to always buy it from the official source. It comes sealed and you can be sure it was not tampered with.
You see, the small money you may save buying it from some fishy source may be not worth the risk of loosing ALL your crypto holdings!

A ledger is by far more secure than say a keystore, however the challenge then becomes is the ledger itself physically secure. Do you keep it in a safe area, who knows that you have it and how do you physically secure it, is fire damage a risk

Ledger and Trezor are both very secure (in fact, I find using them both to have a similar experience). Trezor used to have an exploit but it is now resolved as far as I know. I cannot speak for a keystore device.

Keeping any of them physically secure AFTER they are initiated is not that important, they both have built in PIN protection methods (Ledger reinitiaites after a PIN has been wrongly entered 3 times, Trezor doubles the interval in-between PIN attempts).

The other two risks that I consider to be much greater are the following:
1. the robbery in which you are pressured and made to reveal your PIN (with a gun against your head or your child's head). Here it may be helpful that you may hide your funds under one PIN and some other smaller amount under another PIN
2. that your recovery 24 word backup is found and disclosed. I would advice physically securing that particular piece of information with much greater care than the Ledger device itself