It should be, yes!
Deterministic builds do not fix key exfiltration because there is no way to verify that what you are flashing is what's actually running on the device.
Find my reasoning here: https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/how-almost-all-hardware-wallets-can-steal-your-seed/
Joko
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2023-04-17 17:17:38 CEST
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