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You have considerable risk keeping the wallet locally, just of a different kind. The most common way people have lost money locally thus far is probably just lo
by _delirium 13y ago
You have considerable risk keeping the wallet locally, just of a different kind. The most common way people have lost money locally thus far is probably just losing the wallet file without having backups. A worm or trojan whose payload steals people's bitcoins is also plausible, though afaik there haven't been any yet.
- Bootvis 13y agoWhich indeed is my #1 fear, something nasty can be one `pip install` away.
- maxerickson 13y agoIf you have enough money tied up in it to make you uneasy it would seem sensible to be using dedicated hardware for your coin management (with only the bare necessities of software installed on it).
- Bootvis 13y agoThanks for the tip, motivated me to dust off the old Pentium 4 I have here and install OpenBSD on it.
- smtddr 13y ago>>A worm or trojan whose payload steals people's bitcoins is also plausible, though afaik there haven't been any yet. There have been a couple of these actually: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109000/bitcoinstealing-malware-hidden-in-mt-gox-data-dump-researcher-says.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109000/bitcoinstealing-malwa... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244772/Bitcoin_market_price_app_39_Bitcoin_Alarm_39_is_carefully_cloaked_malware http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244772/Bitcoin_marke... http://www.coindesk.com/cointhief-mac-malware-steals-bitcoins/ http://www.coindesk.com/cointhief-mac-malware-steals-bitcoin... And the most famous probably, cryptolocker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker ...though this is more a ransom strategy than just out-right theft.