Quote from: PomskyFluff on December 23, 2023, 08:26:32 PM

Hi everyone, hope you're all having a great festive break.

I've created a couple of wallets using https://www.bitaddress.org by doing the following steps:

* Saved https://www.bitaddress.org/ as a html file and saved it to a freshly formatted USB stick
* I have a PC with freshly installed version of Windows 10 - the PC has no Internet connection.
* Opened the html file on the non-Internet PC and created the wallets.
* Closed html file and deleted it from the USB stick.
* Wallets saved on the USB stick and removed from PC
* The laptop will never connect to the Internet.

I have switched the PC off now and have no plans to use it. Would you class my paper wallets as being safe to use in this situation?

It may be safe for now.
However, you should also be careful using a USB stick as a wallet storage. Over time, the components of the USB stick may break down, or the data stored on it may be corrupted.

If it's just to protect your wallet, I don't think it's necessary to sacrifice your PC or laptop so that you don't plan to use it. I think that's too paranoid. You can use Linux OS when you are worried about the security of the Windows 10* you are currently using.

Also, when you make a transaction, you need a device that is online/connected to the internet to broadcast the transaction.

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Quote from: https://ransomware.org/blog/ransomware-targets-windows-vs-linux/

Windows is by far the more popular target, and Linux ransomware is relatively uncommon to date; nonetheless, this doesn’t mean that Linux admins can relax.