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by redder23 848 days ago
You sound like you do not understand hardware wallets. The point of the hardware wallet is that you NEVER EVER expose your seed phase you basically hammer it in some metal or buy something that survives fire with your seed phase, and you NEVER EVER type it into any program, nor to you write it down from a computer screen but only directly from the wallet device. If anyone is dumb enough to go through the setup process of a hardware wallet and STILL end up typing their seed phase into some software wallet, then it's on them.

So hell yeah, it would matter, because that setup process alone makes you understand crypto better and why it's isolated from your PC. As others mentioned, that person later realized this.