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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin Wallet Empty, no transactions, no nothing
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on 06/08/2014, 13:04:13 UTC
This is why I opted to go with Linux... felt it was a tidbit safer; perceived safer perhaps? Even though I have a PC and initially had Win8 installed on my server, I've learned what executables can do... so you're def right, there's a level of trust needed. Years ago and just because I learned it was possible, I stripped an exe file down to it's smallest pieces (I think) without installing it. It can be done, but I agree, not easy at all.

Linux is only considered safer because you don't run everything as root while in Windows people have a tendency to log in with their admin account and hence when you run executable files they have access to pretty much everything. Also, it's just more economically feasible for hackers and thieves to go after the operating system which has the most number of users by far - your going to get a lot more people with a windows executable than you are with a tarball that needs to be compiled for Linux.