Lots of people have been exposed to information about openssl vulnerabilities in the last couple days. Particularly since the detailed response from the bitcoin devs was released. The threat is miniscule to non-existant, but the solution is already available. The reluctance of zeitcoin devs to simply recompile the wallet with an updated openssl library is mind boggling. This is a young coin and people are gauging the effectiveness of each coin's dev team based on their response to this issue.
Fix it. Release updated wallet. Bask in praise.
Don't fix it and tell everyone to get bent and compile their own wallet and people will bail. Not exactly what this coin needs at this time.
Zeitcoin devs are not exactly inspiring confidence.
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This is super urgent - and the average Joe should not need to do that by himself. Please dev fix it and update the wallet asap.
To sum it up.
"Please make useless updates to make the average joe feel better."
Are you serious? I am certainly not the average Joe (computer knowledge wise), but even I don't know how to compile a wallet. Out of 100 ordinary people you find lurking around here, how many do you think know how to compile a windows wallet? And I don't think besides being a mom to 3 small kids, I need to worry about learning on how to compile a windows wallet to make me and my investment feel safe again.
And useless? If it was so useless, why is the whole internet and especially the crypto scene all over it?
Because nobody uses the feature (as i explained above) in a zeit wallet. It has no use.
As Lion said. Every other software on a machine is at risk if it uses SSL crypto. But not your wallet.