https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONG2ZNjJ0c
I'm sure this video is making the rounds (which I assume is why YouTube put it in my recommendations).
Regardless, fascinating re-watching of this blast from the past.
Andreas is the GOAT!, but some of this didn't age so well... most notably, specifically identifying ColdCard as his favorite due to its efforts to remove reliance on trust in the manufacturer.
He also expresses a commonly held assumption that has been proven false that we should feel comfortable with hardware wallet seed generation more generally due to heavy scrutiny by experts... *though, he does caveat that perfect trust isn't possible.
Regardless, he does come to the correct ultimate conclusion (IMO): in cases where it's really important to not be relying on trust, you really should be generating your own seed offline with cards, dice, etc. (PS. IMO, there are vanishingly few use-cases where it's not really important to not be relying on trust).
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