RE: Ledger halts key recovery service after users protest, promises to release source code
I think Alistair Milne gave the best answer to this situation, I quote:
„Sure, you *could* use Ledger's new 'Recover' service and give them the your private keys controlling your assets as well as a copy of your ID and other personal information...... but why then bother with a hardware wallet in the first place?”SOURCE
My own observation and opinion: the MPC technology itself, with which they actually want to connect the worlds of DeFi and CeFi, is not our friend at all. For example, the Binance Defi Wallet is also built on MPC technology, so everyone benefits from Web3, but at the cost of not actually having a private key in the DeFi wallet. The private key is encrypted in 3 parts, according to the MPC procedure. The bottom line is that this crypto won't be yours alone. Of course, I still consider this a useful service, but I draw attention to the fact that everyone should strive to maintain a DeFi wallet for their larger and really important devices, where only they themselves have the private key.
Such tricks, which Ledger tried to exploit now, can arouse in people the feeling that what the hell is going on now, will DeFi turn to CeFi?
Thanks for your feedback, well its quite obvious to users that we all consider to be defi in qoute of a hardware wallet isn't what it is with this new service a lot have come to understand that having a personal defi wallet could be more secure.