Quote from: grue on March 02, 2012, 05:06:49 PM

Quote from: muyuu on March 02, 2012, 04:17:05 PM

In reality we have one true measure regarding to security and its perception in the Bitcoin community: time passed since last big fuck-up.

It was just reset to zero yesterday. In the particular case of MtGox, we have it running at under a year still.

It's not really a "fuck-up" if the server provider is compromised. the mtgox breach was caused by a employee that had access to the db, which is totally different.

It doesn't matter who fucked up. It's a combination of things. Criminals have stashed a big amount of coins from important figureheads in the community. For the layman this translates as "BTC are insecure, even their gurus get stolen."

Notice I was talking about security and its perception.

Personally I think one should never store his private keys anywhere it can be seen in any form they can possibly be seen, so the responsibility would be shared.

True enough, VPS's are nice and cheap. I use them. But I don't put any private keys in them, or anything that can be directly stolen.

Hopefully this is a learnt lesson now.