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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Wallet encryption
by
foo
on 19/06/2011, 06:35:53 UTC
Just wait until the first buffer overflow exploit in the client.  Then things will really get interesting.

IIRC, there already was one, where someone generated a crazy amount of coins for themselves. There was a panicked update spree and the 'good' blockchain overtook the bad one once everyone had updated.
Not a buffer overflow. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Incidents#Value_overflow