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Re: hackers can steal data wirelessly from pcs that arent even online
by
Coin_Master
on 28/11/2014, 05:00:56 UTC
Does this include the following?

- Reading some words/digits in the online computer.
- Walking to the airgapped one.
- Manually typing the memorized words/digits on the keyboard.

Yes, even those methods are not safe strictly speaking.  Theoretically a virus can trick you into recording the wrong data.  A truly safe cold storage device can only ever safely transmit data out of itself, never receive input data, as such input data can never truly be guaranteed to be secure.
This would make it impossible to even create cold storage in the first place.

There are hardware cold storage devices available for sale now that never let the private key be known, they are able to sign messages to facilitate sending coins.  In other words, the private key is never used by any software on any internet connected computer or device, the cold storage wallet private key can remain in cold storage while allowing you to send coins.