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Topic
Board Hardware wallets
Merits 6 from 3 users
Re: Ledger Recovery - Send your (encrypted) recovery phrase to 3rd parties entities
by
witcher_sense
on 30/05/2023, 15:08:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,vapourminer (1) ,HeRetiK (1)
Someone somewhere holds the power to decrypt your seed phrase and steal all your coins. The fact that Ledger won't even tell you who that entity is or what security is being used to store your decryption key is highly suspect.
A company adhering to closed source principles and "security through obscurity" can't afford disclosure of information like that. They think that if no one knows (except unknown trusted third parties hired by Ledger) where the keys are being stored, that will ensure the safety of information and customers' peace of mind. But history shows the impossibility of maintaining the integrity and security of data for a long time: such things as inside jobs, social engineering, and phishing may eventually reveal the place in which keys are located and lead to data breaches. Ledger takes their customers for fools and idiots and constantly lies to them about every aspect regarding security and privacy; they use vague language in their FAQs as if they understand that smart people will anyway ignore everything they say.