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Re: NSA can rob peoples BTC wallet in new devices such as the iphone
by
Stephen Gornick
on 31/12/2013, 11:56:00 UTC
While I don't spend my time sweating the NSA,

Yes, I'm comfortable with the opinion that the NSA isn't trying to steal people's bitcoins.

I'm more worried about the rogue sysadmin at a mobile carrier that has access to sneak in a few lines of code into an official update, unbeknownst to all until the bitcoins are swiped.  Discussed here:

Can a mobile be protected against the “Linode problem”?
  http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/3383