I agree that more projects should follow, or improve, the anti-klepto solution, but a laptop suffers the same exact problem, and it has a larger (software) attack surface.
I cannot see any other solution than open source software with a strong peer-review procedure, paired with signed and reproducible builds.
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A Laptop is not a device purpose-built to store millions of dollars in bearer-assets. It’s a much less juicy target.
But this is exactly why you do want a purpose built device. I own a 2014 macbook pro and started using crypto currency in 2017. I started with shitcoins, now I'm only bitcoin. But regardless I had a wallet file saved to a USB stick but one day, I checked my funds and they were gone. I consider myself pretty computer literate and to this day, I still don't know how my wallet was swept. Was this laptop air gapped as you're proposing? No, but IMO that is way easier to fuck up than just using a HWW.
I feel safer with VMs and kernel level reviews
It's not just a problem of individual juicy targets, if people start using airgapped laptops, we will definitely see an increase in attacks on Tails, Sparrow, etc.
A VM doesn't save you from a software patched for data exfiltration.
