CCN earlier reported that Coinomi wallet had a confirmed bug that allowed Google to view the details of a user’s seed phrase. The seed phrase generates a wallet. Coinomi uses a 24-word phrase. It enables a user to regenerate their wallet on any platform, and maintain a simultaneous wallet on their phone and on their desktop. According to Coinomi’s own blog post on the subject, CCN and social media users wrongly characterized the transmission of seed phrases. Packets Were Not “Plain-Text” For one thing, the transmission was not intentional or by design. The bug only affected desktop wallets. The error
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