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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Tangem collecting user seedphrases?
by
The Sceptical Chymist
on 13/04/2025, 22:30:22 UTC

I missed this thread initially, saw it got necrobumped (sort of) for some reason and also saw your previous post about open-source software still being vulnerable to being exploited despite the fact that the code is out there for all to review.

Can you just clarify something here?  Are you arguing that open-source software isn't better than closed-source because oversights have been made?  That runs contrary to everything I've ever read here and also to my own *tech ignorant* opinion, and I guess I'd ask if you agree or disagree that, all things being equal, it would be better to use a HW wallet or its software that has open-source code than using a competing alternative that has closed-source code.  Even if you don't know that the open-source code has been extensively reviewed (or reviewed at all), I just can't see how any HW wallet that doesn't divulge its code is any better in light of the argument you made.

I ask this question respectfully.

Also, I have a Tangem wallet around here somewhere that I bought as a collectible thingee.  Never used it, never wanted to, and whatever their state is now there's no way in hell I'm ever going to.