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Re:Tell HN: Crypto Wallets Trust Wallet and Ledger appear to... by shahbaby on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:27PM (#26599002)
What if the wallet was accessed from a compromised machine?
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Re:Tell HN: Crypto Wallets Trust Wallet and Ledger appear to... by jiehong on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:31PM (#26599029)
That’s the point of a hardware wallet: nothing goes out of it. So no machine can read the private data from it.

Just like a smartcard (like a yubikey).

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Re:Tell HN: Crypto Wallets Trust Wallet and Ledger appear to... by mazamats on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:55AM (#26601949)
He still cloud have connected his Ledger to a compromised client and didn't double check what he was signing before confirming it.
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