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My current Ledger Live version is a few months old, so I checked the release notes of the versions that the company released after the one I currently have installed. I wanted to see if there is anything there that would warrant an update. Turns out that the brainiacs behind Ledger made a change starting with version 2.64.1. They call it an improvement. This "improvement" of theirs automatically downloads (and surely installs) new versions of Ledger Live in the background without asking the user or requiring that the user does it.
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Can't say that I'm surprised as we've talked about this moves in the past - Ledger would silently start implementing procedures that would make the users inevitably update to newer software updates (either their Ledger Live app or their Firmware).
On similar news, Ledger has also recently advanced in their "open source" roadmap[1] - starting from August 7th[2] - they have open sourced their dashboard which supposedly plays a key role in their "recover" feature.Here[3] is the specific repository within Ledger GitHub page, along with documentation[4] and scripts[5]. We all know that this "open source" is very limited, but suffice to say that will surely trick some users out there thinking that Ledger went "open source"...
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https://github.com/LedgerHQ/recover-whitepaper[2]
https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014980580-Ledger-Nano-X-firmware-release-notes[3]
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/blue-loader-python[4]
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/blue-loader-python[5]
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/blue-loader-python/tree/master/ledgerblue