Bitcoin Threat Model - State Actors and HW Security - Chip Supply Chain Attacks - page 2.

joniboini

legendary

Activity: 2170

Merit: 1789

I voted for somewhat concerned. At the moment only 3 votes are coming in so the sample is too small to conclude anything but it doesn't seem like people are overly concerned about it. Personally, I use different HW or build a dedicated air-gapped device to manage my crypto. I avoid HW that contains features that can be exploited for remote attacks like Bluetooth as of now.

satscraper

hero member

Activity: 714

Merit: 1298

I kinda feel the risk and to mitigate it use the multisig wallet to hold my stash. Should such attack hook on one of my HW cosigners the other one will still guard my fund. The probability that both cosigners will get caught simultaneously is negligible. Thus I feel quite safe at the moment, ^{probably will add one cosigner more, eventually.}

Pmalek

legendary

Activity: 2730

Merit: 7065

I am not that concerned with it. It's not like Bitcoin hardware is the only branch that relies on sensitive hardware and chip components. What about the international banking industry? Revolutionary technology that others would like to get their hands on? World governments and their secret knowledgebases and resources? Not to mention military secrets, weaponry, and advances in that field.

There are other things bad actors would gladly backdoor and steal rather than bitcoin and crypto.

BobbysTransactions

newbie

Activity: 18

Merit: 5

Hello all. As a follow-up to my post linked below. I wanted to get a feel for how much of a risk the community think this issue is. Thanks for participating.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5512543

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