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Re: [ESHOP launched] Trezor: Bitcoin hardware wallet
by
marcus_of_augustus
on 10/12/2014, 22:41:36 UTC
so a friend gave me a trezor to play around with (first edition), here's what I got so far ..

openend the box, read the manual, smelled the newness etc ...

1) went to mytrezor.com, clicked on download plug-in (.rpm for fedora) prompted for to save as a file Yumex can handle (assume that all the signing of the plug-in package is secure and taken care of correctly in the back-end but who really knows ... plug-in seems to install without error

2) connected the Trezor device, SElinux alerts go off immediately the plug-in tries to run ... checking into details for the SEAlert gives a few options for allowing mozilla plugins correct access to root locations ... ok, w/e
Code:
SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container from write access on the chr_file .
just playing at this stage so not going to allow that for real until I think through what it is trying to do but play along since I'm not putting any coins anywhere near this until I understand it

3) device connects and immediately get a firmware is out-of-date message that flashes up only long enough for me to read first two lines then disappears ... so need to keep disconnecting and reconnecting device until I can read the whole message ... I need to connect device while holding both buttons down simultaneously which needs both hands on the short cable

4) connect device while holding down both buttons and page asks do I want to update firmware ... sure what else am I going to do, rewrite it myself? ... the "Yes update" button seems to be non-responsive  and then error message flashes up
Code:
Update Failed
b._session is null
and browser becomes very sluggish, cpu fan kicks in signifying usually a runaway process (most likely the mytrezor plugin I expect)

... I think that is far as I will be taking testing with the Trezor for today.