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Board Hardware wallets
Merits 8 from 4 users
Re: Ellipal
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o_e_l_e_o
on 24/10/2022, 18:07:42 UTC
⭐ Merited by NeuroticFish (3) ,bitmover (2) ,Pmalek (2) ,dkbit98 (1)
I think they've improved the security on the new Titan wallet.
The vulnerabilities were fixed:
It's true that the Ledger Donjon review linked to above was from the old Ellipal wallet, but I think it's worth taking a closer look at what they found. The Ellipal wallet was just the board from an Android mobile phone with a new case on it. It still had all the same capabilities as an Android phone, including WiFi and booting to a factory testing mode, that were simply soft locked by the software and trivially re-enabled. Ledger were able to connect up a USB port without issue, access the bootloader, and dump the private keys.

They were essentially marketing a mobile phone on flight mode as a hardware wallet. This is incredible amateurish, if not borderline scammy, and is enough to mean I will never touch one of their devices, even if they say they have improved on all these things. Also, it is closed source.