“Technically speaking it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not,” Ledger said earlier on a now-deleted tweet.
Crypto wallet maker Ledger dug itself into a deeper public relations hole on Wednesday when its support team said in a now-deleted tweet that “technically speaking it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction,” thus allowing the company to extract its users’ keys.