Goddamn, this sneaky dude got me as well! It appeared to me that this happened recently - which would mean the firmware would have been seriously outdated - but I reckon it would have been possible: get a ton of coins, forget it for almost 10 years, find it again and need to look for a hacker since you forgot the PIN.
He is smart guy and I will give him a credit, but correct way would be to mention the years when this happened, if not in video than in descriptions.
Most of the people are now thinking that Trezor is still affected by this old bug, they are not doing any research and social media is full with this youtube video
They're not just cutting the antenna, they're removing the chip's power source, so it just can't turn on again.
Yeah I saw that link and procedure is fairly simple for anyone who did some soldering in his life.
No chip = No wi-fi/bt, and this could even make raspberry a bit faster also (version 2.0 is faster than v1.3 even with wifi/bt).
I love DIY and FOSS myself, and do believe it can be more secure in many cases, just due to more eyes looking at the code. It's also great that you can remove a feature and recompile without that, for instance. However this is not limited to DIY wallets, but it's also the case for any other open-source wallet.
Except for coldacrd wallet, because if you fork their code and try to compile it yourself and change some things, you will get a lawsuit from NVK for license violation...
That means their website is lying and misleading people intentionally.
Ask NVK about this and you will get banned, but all his channels... pathetic.
Of course, also pressure on the manufacturers helps. For example, Shift Crypto offers a 'Bitcoin only' firmware that I believe can also be flashed to the 'Multi' edition (irreversibly).
You know that Keystone wallet also has this feature?
It's possible to install Bitcoin only firmware and after that it's impossible to switch back to multi-coin edition, so it's permanent and good for security.
I would not immediately update in this case, since the new firmware update may contain fresh critical bugs or vulnerabilities. This problem creates a danger only with physical access to the device. Online, Trezor is still safe, isn't it. Can wait a while, and then update the device.
Hello and wtf?!
I would... It's been more than 3 years since this bug in Trezor and it would be BIG mistake if you don't update now if you have old firmware like that.