Re: Bitcoin cold storage

What if your base os is compromised and you use a livecd whilst being offline to store the coins.....can this make you unsafe?

The only risk from what I see in the article is that if you use software to originally set up your wallet that actually originated from a criminal trying to steal your coins with this method, they could steal any coins you subsequently deposit.

They cannot hack a wallet that is secure. They can only put a backdoor in it when it was first created. And only if you use software that is not open-source and vetted by anyone besides the criminal.

Please re-read : "Even if the manufacturer (https://bitcoin.org/) claims that it runs open-source code, how do you tell whether it is actually running what you compiled?"

And maybe my smartphone has secret code from the CIA that is recording all my conversations and has super-secret hardware that can perform a keystroke log on any computer within 5' of it, so they have access to all my accounts and activities and can haul me off for thinking bad thoughts at any moment. Sometimes you just have to accept that the world is not an absolute locked-down perfect place no matter how hard you try to make it.

It remains the case that the hack can't be performed after the fact, which is what you've been shouting.

Don't laugh. The whole reason phones have pulse oximeters now isn't for measuring heartrate. It's so that the CIA can track your thoughts. I read it on the internet.