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by andreskytt 1438 days ago
Your hardware might either leak the private key via a non-internet connection (bluetooth, nfc, physical interface, some non-standard protocol). Also, it might use weak crypto to generate the private key (see ROCA vulnerability). Trusting non-trivial hardware is hard as it takes very little to have it behave maliciously under very specific circumstance.