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Most common three subscenarios: A hardware wallet connected by USB/Bluetooth; locally on disk/memory; in a third-party application. Only on the second case doe
by 3np 4y ago
Most common three subscenarios: A hardware wallet connected by USB/Bluetooth; locally on disk/memory; in a third-party application.
Only on the second case does the browser extension handle primitives like private keys and in no scenario do they get exposed to a site.
The more common crypto-thefts are phishing (user gives away their recovery phrase) or malware (scanning for on-device keys and recovery phrases).