alt Hacker NewsI just opened a ledger up, its stupid easy to do. Why wouldn't they make this a sealed unit with and glue it to make it impossible to open without damaging? Also why would you not glue the entire circuit board? The entire board is covered in test pads which make it super easy to solder dodgy stuff onto.
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I believe epoxy-filling them a-la IronKey is a good idea, but for longevity reasons, I'd prefer the rechargeable battery to be replaceable.
Maybe it increases the price quite a lot, IDK.
different models are subject to different levels of physical security. for example, the Nano Gen5 is extremely hard to open without some form of physical damage
Depending on who is responsible for this, do you not think these people would have the ability to circumvent physical anti-tampering measures?
It's almost as if the cryptocurrency industry is just amateur LARP…
At the price of an eSIM and a LTE modem (and of the stolen 100$M), destroying a glued casing and making your own costs next to nothing. Looking at the photos, even without the test pads soldering directly on the components seem pretty easy.