Quote from: Pmalek on April 19, 2022, 11:53:03 AM

If you are a hodler like you said, and you use Electrum as a cold-storage (which I assume you do), how can a vulnerability in one of the features you don't like affect your wallet? If it's a properly set up cold-storage, no one can take advantage of anything over the Internet. It shouldn't be possible to establish a connection from your PC.

Quote from: thefirstnamelessdude on April 18, 2022, 09:04:11 PM

Hmm... Seems everyone here want to discuss my security model instead of electrum's.

To answer your question: Just as an example... Maybe a future (or present) feature can be used to activate the (built-in Wifi) network adapter of my device which I carefully disabled? Maybe it works as a trigger for other software or even OS components to start the network adapter? We will not know it until the day it actually happens. That's what they call vulnerabilities/exploits.

Quote from: Pmalek on April 19, 2022, 11:53:03 AM

I have said previously that I don't use Electrum's LN, but if I given a chance to get rid of it and my vote determines its future, I would vote against having it removed. Just because I don't need it, what right do I have to decide what others can do?

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on April 19, 2022, 12:20:22 PM

Even if i don't use that feature, someone else does and there's developer willing to implement and maintain it. But if no one willing to maintain it, i agree it's time to remove it gradually (starting from deprecation warning to actual removal after some time).

Quote from: thefirstnamelessdude on April 18, 2022, 09:04:11 PM

Strange that some people defend extra features (extra code) even if they are not using them...

Even more, I think it's very twisted reasoning to defend extra features because of others who remain silent in this topic. Also, I'm not asking the actual removal of features but merely suggesting there could be multiple electrum versions with different features or extra features could be offered via downloadable plugins/extensions.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 08:33:11 AM

However, this is still a suggestion to fix something that isn't broken in the first place.

Right, you suggest that we wait until it's broken? We all know how all those wallets with lots of features end... with lots of vulnerabilities/bugs and very frequent (risky) updates!
Electrum is the best and safest BTC (SPV) wallet we have today, let us keep it that way by keeping things simple.

Greets.

thefirstnamelessdude

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