Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The police
by
kjj
on 21/05/2011, 09:11:05 UTC
Because Bitcoins are traded anonymously, they will be extremely easy to steal once the malware community begins to take notice unless something is done to secure how we access Bitcoins. At the moment, we simply turn on the program and go. We can even rip them straight from the computer. There's a tutorial on this very website on how to rip your Bitcoins and back them up to DropBox. Obviously, there needs to be an additional layer of security. Files need to be secured with passwords, the program needs to require a password that CANNOT BE RETRIEVED (if it is retrievable, it is possible for an exploiter to remotely retrieve it) IF LOST, and everything needs to be encrypted.

You already have this.  In fact, if you think about it, you already have as much security with bitcoin as you choose to have.  The public keys that correspond to the bitcoin addresses are the passwords that can't be retrieved.