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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Data Harvesting Inside Ledger Live App - Is this really part of Non-custodial?
by
Pmalek
on 20/12/2023, 11:26:27 UTC
But you have to use Ledger Live to add or update apps on your Ledger hardware, at which point you're at the mercy of Ledger's tracking.
I know, but like I said, that's an entirely different problem that has no affect on the custody of your coins and keys. If you had no access to your crypto outside of Ledger software and needed their permission to move your funds, then we can talk about issues with custody. That isn't the case here.   

Better yet, it's time for Ledger to prove the firmware on their hardware is safe AND HAS ABSOLUTELY NO ABILITY TO EXPORT THE USER'S KEYS.
Doing it now, retroactively, would be pointless anyway. The best you can hope for is them doing it for future firmware versions, and I doubt they will do that. And even if they do, the harm of Ledger Recover has already been done and can't be undone. Sending shards of your keys to other companies for "safe-keeping" is a custody issue in comparison to the tracing problem we discussed above.