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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Tangem collecting user seedphrases?
by
DaveF
on 13/04/2025, 18:05:04 UTC
Tangem... I've never heard of this wallet. This serves as an example to show that it's not enough to be a hardware wallet, it needs to be open source too to avoid such discrepancies as this. It seems like an amateur mistake, it's so absurd that even hot wallets are more secure than this type of HW.

P.S. I wouldn't use old SEEDs generated by Ledger to initiate any new wallet.
The seed is not a problem if I can use passphrases.  Wink

But, and this point has been made the software that had the issue IS OPEN SOURCE.
The card itself is closed source, but the software that runs it (and that had the issue) it's right here: https://github.com/tangem

But open source is soooo much better:   https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/my-cups-runneth-over-with-cves.html

-Dave