Hello Everyone!I am a big fan of Dave and EEVblog and I was very pleased today when I saw the newest video. I did not know that Dave is a Bitcoin user, nor that he knows about TREZOR. Really really nice surprise!Now for some clarification points.Q: Why didn't you use Secure Element or Secure Chip?A: We want to keep TREZOR as open as possible (both firmware and hardware are completely open source and available at our GitHub). If we used Secure Element we would limit hobbyist and hackers in creating their own clones, because you cannot use Secure Element in your design unless you sign a non-disclosure agreement with the vendor. By using standard off the shelf components, we make that really easy. I am aware of Secure Element advantages, but we are trying to fix most disadvantages of generic MCU in the software (see below). Also there is a blog post of a community member gbg describing how he built such clone: http://www.stellaw.info/blog/2015/12/22/i-built-my-own-trezor-clone-dinosaur-hiphop-zero Q: Why didn't you use epoxy like it was suggested in the video?A: I see three reasons why use epoxy.First is to increase the durability of the device. We feel that TREZOR is durable enough even without the epoxy.Second, to obfuscate components you are using in your design. This is not needed as the design is open source.Thirdly, to make access to the MCU harder. If you are highly motivated, epoxy will just slow you down, not stop you. Also MCU has disabled JTAG, so there is no need to block access to MCU pins.Q: What's up with the side channels attacks?A: Side channel attacked described by Jochen Hoenicke were fixed by rewriting all crypto functions to use constant time. Jochen did almost all of the fixing and we've been collaborating ever since on various security and non-security related improvements. We love our community! Also we ask PINevery operation involving a private key (e.g. generating of the public key), so even if there was some side channel attack left, you still need to know the PIN to trigger it.Q: How about MCU glitching?A: We did our best to protect the MCU against glitching (e.g. when we check the PIN, we first increase the PIN failure count, write it to flash, verify that write was OK, then check whether the PIN was correct and if it was correct then we reset the PIN failure count). That way you cannot glitch the PIN increase write. That said, recently, we received couple of ideas for further improvements from Josh Datko and he'll talk about the issues (and fixes we are together working on) in his Defcon talk later this month: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-25/dc-25-speakers.html#Datko Q: My neighbour has an one million dollar microscope equipment and he is examining my TREZOR. Should I worry?A: No. There is a big difference between attacks on smart cards and TREZOR. If your smart card is stolen and one can read the secrets from it, you can basically do nothing about it. (You don't have the secrets and only attacker has them). TREZOR is a different animal. You have the backup so you can use that to send your fundsthe attacker has access to them.Also we have introduced a concept of so-called passphrase. If you use passphrase, you are requested to enter your passphrase before the signing operation. This passphrase is combined with the secret stored in the device, resulting in creation of a completely new secret key and thus a completely new wallet! If an attacker has successfully extracted the secret from the device and he does not know your passphrase, he still cannot access your funds! Also because passphrase does not act like password (it is not not compared against known value but rather combined with the secret, making _every_ passphrase valid), it provides a plausible deniability. If you are interrogated, you can give any passphrase you want and attacker will see empty wallet. (Or you can use passphrase "lonelypumpkins" where you store millions and passphrase "funnyspirit to create a wallet where you just send a few dollars - to make it look like it's being really used).For more information about the concepts I described here, please check our FAQ and User Manual: https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-faq/