To tell you the truth your not safe from me with the code anyway
There's nothing stopping me slipping a dirty package in with the updates or something, or a hidden administrator account. I won't do this but looking at a users point of view this could be a possibility.
This is what I'm talking about - and even you verify it. For us NON linux people how could we prevent the exact scenario you are talking about? How does one scan for a 'hidden admin account' or make sure none of that exists.
You did this to provide a secure way of using bitcoin and it seems you've done a really great job so why not finalize it by helping people understand how to be 100% safe?
I know you don't have to, I'm not trying to be a nag on a free service you provided. Once I get a grip on this thing I will donate and I'm sure others would be more inclined to donate for your time to know beyond a shadow of a doubt no such things as you mentioned above exist.
I'm also a little confused with persistence.. I have a 8 gb flash drive.... I installed linuxcoin.... it runs on my desktop with a ati 5830 but not on my laptop with a 5870m.
but then it said the 'ring' ran out of room/space.... I was a little confused with the root account.. loging off loging on (I'm reading the other thread all the way through) this is specifically the windows thread I guess. Also... do the unsecure bitcoin and secure share the same wallet.dat or are they two separate wallets?
Hope these questions aren't too retarded and again thanks for chiming in.
- Blackout
To address your first question is trust me and trust the community
Noone want's to loose their coins and if foul play is suspected it doesn't take long for word to spread. Only use ISO's that match the MD5 / SHA1 sums posted on the official thread or website and only use packages from linuxcoin's official repository, change the default user password, read up about and use grsecurity's RBAC system to it's full potential
(Default policies will be in place with the next version), Any application you don't trust linuxcoin has the facility to run it inside a sandbox and restrict access to files on your system ie your wallet. Make full use of linuxcoin's tools like tor / privoxy, openVPN, PaX etc and stay as quiet as possible
Follow these rules and you should be as safe as one can be in the digital realm.
A lot of the internal working have changed from the last version and this issue has been addressed. There are fixes available for these issues but I'm very pushed for time atm and have only posted links onto the official thread. I know this is far from ideal but I'm hoping to tidy the update process etc up a bit. This should make things a lot simpler to stay up to date etc.
When I get my head above water again I will make a push to get some real documentation out there for the average Joe to follow along and use linuxcoin to it's full potential. ATM with the lack of documentation I'm sorry guys but you will have to do your best to read up about how debian systems work if you want to do something with LinuxCoin. I'd love to put more of my time into this but I'm short on cash so have to work all sorts of hours to make a little p