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Board Hardware wallets
Re: It is NOT secure to use hardware wallets (and it never was)
by
RGBKey
on 22/03/2018, 22:37:12 UTC
I have been warning people about hardware wallets for years. Bitcoin is the most personal store of value. Don't break it by using untrusted third party soft/hardware:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ledgerattack.pdf

Worth mentioning, that the guy who found this exploit is 15 ys young.
I was amazed by this news, I thought that hardware wallets are top secure for saving our bitcoins, Indeed, I thought to buy one in the future, but after reading this PDF. I will keep my bitcoin in some web wallets as I don't have too much, in the same time, I will search for the secure wallet from now on.


Web wallets are much worse. Just use Bitcoin Core, or other similar software. Web wallets have many more attack vectors than local software.