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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Build a better bitcoin web service?
by
Xephan
on 03/08/2011, 18:50:20 UTC
I'm not as concerned about two factor authentication (which could under some schemes require OS access outside the browser).  Ideally you're only keeping a small amount of funds per account, but the design of the service should reduce the attack surface from an owner or hacker trying to steal the funds from _all_ accounts.

Like I mentioned in another post, the human factor is something I haven't found a way around. The hacker can be deterred/slowed enough that damage is minimized, but there's really nothing to stop an owner from inserting code to steal passwords or redirect transactions and such.

The only safeguard is still: don't store more coins than necessary! Cheesy