This is why I use an online wallet rather than the official bitcoin client. I'm not saying online wallets are any safer - but they are at least slightly safer. I can't believe that the official bitcoin client STILL does not support encryption! Yes, I know it is available in some beta build but really - shouldn't this be priority number one over anything else? The whole bitcoin thing blew up 2 months ago and still nada! As Maged pointed out - the lack of coders is probably the result of this. I'm just shocked - all this interest in Bitcoin and the client hardly gets updated with fixes or improvements?! Where are you coders hiding?