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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [ANN] Bitcoin version 0.3.23 released
by
jgarzik
on 14/06/2011, 06:16:55 UTC
feature suggestion.  "check for updates" and auto install new version.   

Many people worry about such a feature being hijacked, and rightly so.  One SF hack, and you can steal many bitcoin wallets through a trojan'd binary + auto-update.

In theory this is possible through a chain of trust, but it is quite complicated.  Do not expect this any time soon.