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Yes, it is actually difficult to secure your seed. Really sorry to hear what happened to many Coldcard Mk3 users. You did nothing wrong. To get the obvious out of the way, the hate Coinkite is getting right now is deserved. Firstly, there should have had a more thorough review process that would have caught the unintentional change in their seed generation method. Secondly, its leadership shouldn't have been so cocky and gatekeep-y. The adage "pride cometh before a fall" comes to mind. So this post is not a defense of Coinkite or an endorsement of Coldcard devices. However, I feel the need to point out that it's best to assume all software has bugs, and after a career in tech I have never met any programmer or company who does not create bugs. Today it was the people who used a particular generation method on a particular version of a particular device that got screwed and thankfully, my setup was not affected. But I can easily imagine other alternate scenarios. None of the following things actually happened, but to me these scenarios are easy to picture: