Antwort auf: Ein etwas differenzierterer Beitrag zu diesem ganzen Schlamassel
> You are not going to convince anyone to buy your product by saying „Your keys can never leave your wallet, unless a new firmware is installed on the device“.
Ledger literally said a firmware update would never ever change the fact that your keys never leave the secure element.
> Hi – your private keys never leave the Secure Element chip, which has never been hacked. The Secure Element is 3rd party certified, and is the same technology as used in passports and credit cards. **A firmware update cannot extract the private keys from the Secure Element.**
> SOURCE: [@Ledger 8:12 AM · Nov 15, 2022](https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1592551225970548736)
They lied.
And because their firmware isn’t fully open, we have no way of knowing what’s in it.
> There’s no backdoor and **I obviously can’t prove it**
> SOURCE: [–btchip, Ledger owner & co-founder](https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/13itm7u/is_there_a_backdoor_yes_or_no/jkbvys7/)
And it’s not like we can trust their security.
> Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online.
> SOURCE: [Cointelegraph, December 24th, 2020](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ledger-data-leak-a-simple-mistake-exposed-270k-crypto-wallet-buyers)