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by woah 923 days ago
Not sure if anyone actually read my original post. The problem is that Ethereum transactions are not especially human readable so they are commonly signed blind. As you point out, this is a problem.
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So it wasn't the case that dynamically loading and executing a blob of unreviewed third-party code containing the offending section is what was responsible for those transactions being initiated. Oh wait, it was.
The whole point of a hardware wallet is that the security of your computer shouldn't matter.
Exclusively focusing on the security failures arising from end-user UI/social engineering and ignoring the failures arising from poor engineering billed as modern software development best practices is another type of failure.