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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin cold storage - HACKED easily
by
mayax
on 17/01/2015, 12:12:53 UTC
What if your base os is compromised and you use a livecd whilst being offline to store the coins.....can this make you unsafe?


"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?" Verbücheln said.

in other words: MANY developers worldwide are working in their free time to a project, in this case, Bitcoin. That's why it's called OPEN SOURCE.

These developers can put anything they want IN the source code.

Verbücheln: ".... that some pieces of open-source code are so large and complex that even a dedicated community of developers may not detect a malicious addition."