Hi guys
I will be getting a hardware wallet in 2 weeks or so, will probably be going for the Nano as it supports more coins. However how can I know that the box hasnt been opened and re-sealed or anything before I got it ? I mean anything can happen in the warehouse from the online shop im buying from, or at airport customs.. etc..
To my understanding there is a piece of paper in there with my seed words, how can I know that nobody has those ?
The best thing would be to only buy from an official reseller or the original store, that makes you rather safe from
supply-chain attacks.
If you go for a ledger be aware that they had exactly this problem before the last firmware update. Someone could manipulate the ledger nano s (and blue) in that way that even the creation of a new seed wouldn't have helped, see here:
https://www.ledger.fr/2018/03/20/firmware-1-4-deep-dive-security-fixes/Make a hard reset in any case and be sure that you've got Firmware 1.4.1 or higher.
You can't be 100% safe tough, unfortunately.