adrienne
@adrienne
Potentially dumb question that’s been on my mind since first learning about crypto: When you enter your seed phrase into a wallet, how do you know the provider isn’t doing something else with it, like storing it in a log somewhere? It happens with passwords - how are wallets different, why should we trust them?
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san
@san
TLDR - you don't This is why use open source wallets as much as possible. Slope, a solana wallet logged the seed phrases to sentry (the logging system), and lots of users got drained last year.
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adrienne
@adrienne
the exact scenario I was paranoid about
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