" The president won’t name names, saying Ledger is talking to “a lot of people,” but a source with knowledge of the round told Forbes that Siemens, Samsung and Google’s venture arm GV have all shown interest, and that there’s talk of Ledger’s valuation nearing $1 billion."
If they sell out to Google, I will surely empty my hardware wallet and crush it and place a video on Youtube.
We are trying our best to rid ourselves from Big Brother and now there are rumours of them having conversations with Google. 
Some people have never trusted hardware wallets and used spare PC's and laptops as cold storage. Perhaps the chance of big hardware wallets going rogue is very low now, but for users with huge amounts of coins it's a risk they can not afford. But in theory every hardware can have backdoors, if Intel have placed crap like ME in their CPU's, it's totally possible that they might place some backdoors that will target cryptocurrency users if NSA would ask them. So, the future of cold wallets will be interesting, especially when the stakes will get higher.
