Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script
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Re: Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script
#2I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up to new malicious apps knowing exactly what to target. A major client-side security breach would look really bad for bitcoin.
Re: Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script
#3Can we please remove spam from pyramid schemes from HN?
Re: Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script
#4I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up to new malicious apps knowing exactly what to target. A major client-side security breach would look really bad for bitcoin.
Well, it's open source :)
But you're right - better check twice every single process.