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A dedicated hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger is likely a much better setup than a homebrew setup on a general purpose computer.

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What if those brands are compromised or back-doored by internal or external actors? Just look at the Western Digital fiasco recently. Do these wallets call home at all? Also: aren’t backups easier to make on a normal SSD?

(PS: these are my personal genuine concerns and I’m at least somewhat willing to have my mind changed: not trolling or being argumentative for entertainment)

Trezor is open source, and neither of them connects to the internet directly. They only connect to open source programs on your own computer, so the ways they talk to the outside world are known.

Thanks, I’ll look more deeply into this.

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