Quote from: naxin on June 17, 2014, 10:30:45 AM

Quote from: illodin on June 17, 2014, 07:36:19 AM

Quote from: naxin on June 17, 2014, 07:27:58 AM

Quote from: peteycamey on June 17, 2014, 07:12:59 AM

is it a bad idea to setup a masternode on windows 7 ?

with unnecesasary services turned off and firewall + antivirus installed.

Please please please do it. You will have given me 1000 DRK within 2 weeks of you launching it. I'm not even a little bit joking. The number of attack vectors I would have is unreal. Not as bad as say running a MN on win xp (god forbid...), but still.

So basically no one should even run their standard wallets on windows 7?

So much for going mainstream.

No there is an incredibly large difference.

With a masternode I know a few very important pieces of information. I have a target which I am 100% confident has 1000 DRK at a minimum. And I have an IP address at which those DRK reside.

That is very different than any old wallet. I have no way of linking an IP address to a high value wallet for sure. And an IP addresses I do know have a darkcoin wallet on them, I have no idea how much is on it, and to me, my time is incredibly valuable. Spending 20 hours attacking one wallet to get 2 DRK is not worth it. For 1000? Absolutely.

Quote from: LaudaM on June 17, 2014, 08:12:08 AM

Quote from: illodin on June 17, 2014, 07:36:19 AM

Quote from: naxin on June 17, 2014, 07:27:58 AM

Quote from: peteycamey on June 17, 2014, 07:12:59 AM

is it a bad idea to setup a masternode on windows 7 ?

with unnecesasary services turned off and firewall + antivirus installed.

Please please please do it. You will have given me 1000 DRK within 2 weeks of you launching it. I'm not even a little bit joking. The number of attack vectors I would have is unreal. Not as bad as say running a MN on win xp (god forbid...), but still.

So basically no one should even run their standard wallets on windows 7?

So much for going mainstream.

He's talking nonsense and pretending like he knows a lot, while he actually does not. The idea is not bad or good. You would have to work hard and set it up correctly so that you won't get attacked IMO. There is no way for him to get 1000 DRK within 2 weeks even if he hacked you.

I am not talking nonsense and I can assure you, I know exactly what I am talking about. Why you would lie and give a user false sense of security is beyond me. I'm hoping it is out of your ignorance, not malice.

Yes, a windows 7 server absolutely could be setup to be secure, even if it was the main computer you used. But now let's be really honest, if someone is asking about setting up a node on their win 7 desktop, do you really think they are capable of doing that? Absolutely not.

There security implications go so much further beyond just getting hacked, by hosting your node on a residential connection and not in a data center, a nefariousness person could find you. Social engineering is a very real thing and works much better than hacking. So now, the hacker has your home address and location of the server. Fuck trying to hack you, they'll just drive to your house and rob you. Or, park out front, grab your wifi key, send it to a cloud GPU cluster to crack it, then because 9x.xx% of people don't change their router password (not wifi, the root router password) from the defaults, they could change your DNS servers to their own DNS servers and monitor your traffic. Then, when you went to an unencrypted site to download something, they would MITM attack you, directing you to their own server and feeding you a fake download link with a RAT. There are plenty of RATS which go 100% undetected, so your antivirus will do nothing. And you won't be the least be suspicious because the file you are downloading is from a trusted site. Or so you thought.

And the thing of it is? If you spent $5 / month on a VPS and just ran your MN on a locked down linux server in a secure data center as recommended, none of that could have happened!

Hmmm but now with the cold wallet on your home pc, doesn't that change the situation?

From what you are saying, maybe it is safer to keep the 1000 DRK on the VPS than on your home pc? Or what would be best?