neutron on Nostr: Recovery phases should never be stored in the digital medium. No photos, no text ...

Recovery phases should never be stored in the digital medium. No photos, no text files, not anything like that, even if encrypted. #bitcoin

quoting note18m9…jpj0

Malware has been found in both Google Play and Apple's App Store that uses optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from users' photo galleries.

That's...kind of cool and an interesting attack vector. Don't take screenshots or photos of your wallet's recovery phrases.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/438433