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by fadys 1904 days ago
Your first point is spot-on.

But about the rest...the Ledger's wallet's seed words were on paper, never seen by a computer after it was generated.

His Trust Wallet, however, did have his seed words on his phone. But again, it has a 6-digit passcode.

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yeah, the Ledger situation is still a mystery to me, and i can’t profess to know all that much about the security of the device.

i mean, humans make mistakes, and i suppose there is the chance that he slipped up at some point and typed it into his (probably) compromised computer at some point. but if i were take your word on it that that never happened... i really don’t know.

on the trust wallet - it doesn’t matter if he had a passcode. if his computer was compromised, and he signed into iCloud on it at -any- point, an attacker could do whatever they wanted with it.

Is the seed phrase on his trust wallet the same seed phrase as his ledger?
AFAIK the seed phrase is randomly generated when you initialize the wallet.
No. (I know).