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I suppose you could still make your wallet.dat as insecure in Linux as it is in Windows. You could:
At which point, your Linux box will be almost as insecure as a Windows box and your wallet.dat vulnerable. However, to truly replicate the insecurity you need to run Internet Explorer under Wine running with root privileges and surf the Internet for a while. That would just about do it.
Ok, I guess I'm in a snarky mood today
- Chmod 777 wallet.dat so that it is world writable.
- Share it over an insecure NFS or SMB share.
- Not use a firewall and park your Linux box inside your Network DMZ while running OpenSSH server.
- Pretend RAID is a backup solution.
- Never back up wallet.dat to a removable device.
- Have a weak root password that is either (1) a dictionary word, or a (2) a dictionary word plus some numbers so that you're vulnerable to a dictionary and rainbow-table attack.
- And of course, you could always run every application as root, including applications that are vulnerable to scripting attacks such as IRC.
- Disable SELinux/AppArmor.
At which point, your Linux box will be almost as insecure as a Windows box and your wallet.dat vulnerable. However, to truly replicate the insecurity you need to run Internet Explorer under Wine running with root privileges and surf the Internet for a while. That would just about do it.
Ok, I guess I'm in a snarky mood today
+1; LMAO that's sounds like alot of work but still will be necessary. This is good to know if any of my professor have more questions about. Some of them question the security about it.
But if you were to have this on multiple oses then you are opening yourself up to more attacks on your wallet.
Kind Regards,
Marty Lee
Kind Regards,
Marty Lee
I agree with your ideology but i'll resist watching porn on these operating systems; lol. I was just considering developing a small local bitcoin consultant group. Considering that alot of people don't understand importance of having a proper anti-virus and also to mock the urban myths about bitcoins.
Yep, the wallet file is totally os independent. You can have the same wallet.dat under windows/linux/mac/etc and each of the clients will access the same bitcoin wallet. Each time you move the wallet file though, you will have to re-download the blockchain.
Another question; if I were to transfer the same Wallet.dat to seperates client the balance would "act" the same; in other words while connected to the network the balance would be simultaneously the same or no?
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Anyone else looking forward to the winter?
Yea, for two card miner it's not to bad. For last few days it was hot, 102f outside. Atm 69f @ noon outside.
Dude, that's an insane temperature drop!
Since I realized that Wallet.dat is the heartbeat of the bitcoin client; I was curious if the file is cross-platform. I wanna be able to securely transfer the file with scripts just in case of a computer malfunction.
P.S. I've been learning DOS and UNIX (Terminal) commands. I just wanna use my skillz and put em' to the test.
P.S. I've been learning DOS and UNIX (Terminal) commands. I just wanna use my skillz and put em' to the test.
Is this for real? I mean I can't believe he'd make a video which is of kinda lower quality than I'd expect but at the end he does say he endorsed this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBo7q8VWvQ
So anyone gonna be voting for him in 2012?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBo7q8VWvQ
So anyone gonna be voting for him in 2012?
Isn't posting something like that on youtube illegal, due the fact what is said is false advertisement at the last couple of seconds.
It tells you something when the intellectuals see the qualities of bitcoin, while the "experienced" economists claim skepticism without any valid arguments against it. None. Zilch. Nada.
Meh, not really a fair comparison. The hard math side and the economical side are... well, two different sides.
Sort of, The only example can argue with is that alot of college students with economic and business majors dread calculus I and they usually take it at their senior (or super senior year). Meanwhile math majors like me, take it in our high school senior year or freshman year of college. my point is that educational value of bitcoin is more important than the value of the bitcoin itself. I just found it a bit dumb that people constantly complain about its value, rather than its commerce. fluffed that noise, we're living in a retarded economy anyways, where false numbers are thrown all over the place without the perception of time.
P.S. sorry for the nerd tantrum i'm reading a book/e-book about the chaos theory, lol.
It tells you something when the intellectuals see the qualities of bitcoin, while the "experienced" economists claim skepticism without any valid arguments against it. None. Zilch. Nada.
sooooooo as a mathematician I'm not crazy.... lol?
cause I used to know people from wall street that would argue but they can't calculate as fast as I can.
Well I gave it to multiple professors:
I showed it to my adviser first, who is a big Pioneer for the Urge program. ( here's the link http://tinyurl.com/3tqy3nu )
Day 1
Me: hey, professor did you ever heard about bitcoins
*showed him a few google searches and satoshi's abstract*
Professor: Hmm, seems interesting..... I'll look into it.
Day 2
*before my Computational Class started*
Me: Hey professor!
Professor: WOW BITCOIN IS AMAZING!!!!! HOW DO YOU MINE? HAVE YOU READ SATOSHI'S PAPER!!
Me: uhh, you run some software and I am the one who mentioned it to you, lol.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how to pioneer a product such as bitcoin as digital coolness, and my current college is a big teacher school. and I got suggested to an award by SUNY without meeting the gpa requirements
wtf lmao. I understand my limits, so wtf is going on lol.
I showed it to my adviser first, who is a big Pioneer for the Urge program. ( here's the link http://tinyurl.com/3tqy3nu )
Day 1
Me: hey, professor did you ever heard about bitcoins
*showed him a few google searches and satoshi's abstract*
Professor: Hmm, seems interesting..... I'll look into it.
Day 2
*before my Computational Class started*
Me: Hey professor!
Professor: WOW BITCOIN IS AMAZING!!!!! HOW DO YOU MINE? HAVE YOU READ SATOSHI'S PAPER!!
Me: uhh, you run some software and I am the one who mentioned it to you, lol.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how to pioneer a product such as bitcoin as digital coolness, and my current college is a big teacher school. and I got suggested to an award by SUNY without meeting the gpa requirements
wtf lmao. I understand my limits, so wtf is going on lol.My only issue is the ones that are uneducated about programming language and securities measures are gonna suffer from the out come, and we're back at square one of the industrial revolution and when Social Darwinism was "The Oprah" of that time. I showed my professors the abstract of Satoshi and they flipped out (lmao). As an Applied Math Student I'm kind of upset..... BUT I LOVE BITCOINS lol. If I start a College-Student Club in regards of bitcoin, noone is gonna go after me, are they? I fear people that I don't understand.
aye, I do agree but there are some seriously dumb people that take advantage of the newbie forums. Just to allude that bitcoins is an obsolete option as an alternative currency. We need math, lol.