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		drivebyacct2 on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Instawallet Hacked Yeah, it's really not too hard to use a live linux disc to boot into to do transactions, etc. Keep the wallet encrypted in the client, keep the USB drive you store the wallet on dm-crypted. Keep the wallet (and it's daily backups) backed up to your DropBox in case you lose your jump drive. The weakest link is then DropBox + your BTC-client password. Or I guess if someone has modified the live environment on your jump drive or if they have a sophisticated attack on your UEFI/BIOS.

slg on April 3, 2013 [–]

And this ladies and gentlemen is the reason that Bitcoin has a lot of work to go before it will be accessible to the non-technophile community.

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