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hardware waller is NOT your key too. YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web. There is a giant difference.
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Your method does not protect against what the person you replied to, posted.

If your paper wallet, generated offline, used a bad RNG, it is just as vulnerable.

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> YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web.

That sounds like your housekeeper's key...

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Commit it to memory, the original kind.
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And then make sure to never have any memory loss or you’ll lose all your money too.
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That’s the risk. You can write it down or otherwise store it, but you’re trading one risk for another.
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It's bizarre how this is the new thing everyone has to echo whenever they see a crypto thread.

You can store crypto with zero risk of electronic access just using offline wallet generation and an offline wallet. It's not even hard.

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