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Topic
Board Electrum
Re: Warning about portable versions
by
Muhammed Zakir
on 05/08/2015, 12:21:29 UTC
About keyloggers: why don't you implement a visual (mouse clicking) access check?

Movements of mouse or clicks can also be recorded. However, you can reduce it by using a scrambled virtual keyboard. But still, most users prefer to use their keyboards.

Note that, ThomasV has explicitly mentioned that portable build is not dangerous by itself. It is just like other builds but it encourages dangerous behaviour.

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It is not safe to use a portable version of Electrum on an insecure computer!

Don't get me wrong: I am not saying that a portable build is by itself more dangerous than a non-portable version.

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In addition, portable builds encourage dangerous behaviour, because they make it very easy to use your wallet on third party computers, that might be infected with viruses and keyloggers.

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