> Imagine we have some crazy sci-fi 3d scanners/printers that can clone atom-by-atom an object.

One question. Have you every set up and operated a 3d printer?

kepford

Imagine we have some crazy sci-fi 3d scanners/printers that can clone atom-by-atom an object.

If you could clone a hardware wallet 1000 times you could brute-force all pins easy peasy.

Once we established that futuristic crazy sci-fi technology breaks pin-based HW the question is how far away we are from that future costwise/technologywise. And it's something we also need to consider if we want to put HW in a cold-storage for 50 years.

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I will expand on my reply. 

Imagine we have some crazy sci-fi 3d scanners/printers that can clone atom-by-atom an object. 

If you could clone a hardware wallet 1000 times you could brute-force all pins easy peasy.

Once we established that futuristic crazy sci-fi technology breaks pin-based HW the question is how far away we are from that future costwise/technologywise. And it's something we also need to consider if we want to put HW in a cold-storage for 50 years.