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Board Beginners & Help
Re: There is no Hardware wallet thread on first page of Beginners & Help!
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SFR10
on 08/02/2022, 19:06:12 UTC
it's better to buy it in a physical store,
Only if that store belongs to an official reseller...

- Perform all hardware steps alone, in a quiet area. Mask all camera, and never type/take picture of your seed on your mobile or computer even offline.
In addition to these things, we should also worry about devices that come with a microphone [sometimes we involuntarily read stuff out loud, and there's always a chance that someone else might be listening at the other end].

- If seed and PIN lost, there is no way to retreive funds
That's true in most cases, but if you happened to have an outdated [version 1.6.0] Trezor One, then it's a different story: Trezor hacked (again)