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Bitcoin => Hardware wallets => Topic started by: neurotypical on September 12, 2017, 12:36:43 PM



Title: Is Trezor compromised?
Post by: neurotypical on September 12, 2017, 12:36:43 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/6yti7p/trezor_bridge_trezordexe_calling_home/

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On (first?) start the trezord.exe tries to open an Amazon IP address (serveral on failure and at various ports, e.g. 13.32.14.x:54xxx).

What is looking for there? Updates? I think it's scary. Could be used to track down Trezor users.

edit: It seems wallet.trezor.io will not start up with trezord.exe fenced. Sigh.

Why is trezord.exe trying to connect with an Amazon IP address?


Title: Re: Is Trezor compromised?
Post by: HCP on September 13, 2017, 10:51:30 AM
Did you read the whole reddit thread? It is explained in full here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/6yti7p/trezor_bridge_trezordexe_calling_home/dmq1vim/

It's necessary to be able to setup and run the HTTPS server locally that the wallet requires...