Today, my Mycelium Entropy arrived. I was excited about this one -- a simple device designed to do one simple thing.
Here are my initial thoughts:
Nice packaging. Decent enough build quality. What's that on the right side?
Branded holographic security seal?
This, my friends, is called "Security Theater." The 'security seal' is *easily* bypassed. Makes me wonder what other security 'features' they got boneheadedly wrong.
Its an ATMEL ATSAM4LS4 ARM Coretx M proc
wat. "We're 'open source'! So f*ck you, you're on your own!"
This product is a toy. This is clever, but does not instill any confidence in their ability to make a financial product.
I'd reach for any of the other three products before the Mycelium Entropy.
These are just initial impressions, but man am I disappointed with the presentation and apparent lack of confidence in their own product.
What's the purpose of the holographic sticker? It fails miserably as a tamper-evident seal. Its just to look pretty? Its got Mycelium branding, so some (non-insignificant) part of the price of this device went to a shiny sticker that some folks might interpret incorrectly as adding to its security. blech.
This is another Bitcoin hardware company throwing around that term 'open source'. Sure, there's a repo with some code, but the way I found out what processor was running inside was by disassembling mine.
More to come.
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