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Re: Ledger Recovery - Send your (encrypted) recovery phrase to 3rd parties entities
by
n0nce
on 23/05/2023, 17:28:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,RickDeckard (2) ,vapourminer (1)
The CTO just shared this on Twitter. Ledger's open source roadmap:



Your thoughts?

To be honest, here 'open source' is thrown around wildly.. Grin

They are taking credit for their '+150 applications' being open source, meanwhile are not writing those themselves, right? The individual coins' developers make them, don't they?

The SDK pretty much has to be open-source if they want altcoin developers to make the accompanying Ledger app for them (for free?); so nothing to take much credit for there, either.

A whitepaper cannot be 'open / closed source' since (1) it's not a source of anything (neither software, nor hardware), (2) you don't write a whitepaper if you don't intend to publish it.

All these blogposts, little tools and whatever they want to provide are just fillers for the big void on the infographic: the firmware remains closed.
As long as that doesn't change, their ability to include backdoors doesn't change. No matter how many blogposts they publish, whether they open-source some dashboard or individual apps. We need the firmware source code; anything else is pointless.