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How can you be so sure that your wallet software doesn't contain any exploitable bugs? No matter what scheme you use, it doesn't seem safe enough for storing large sums of money.

At least Debian have had their repositories hacked in such a way that the hacker could have distributed tailor made exploits users would receive by running "apt-get upgrade". It's not so hard imagining someone inserting code in a bitcoin client to send all your coins to one specific address. If it's not a hacker, it could be an insider at Debian or the author of the bitcoin client themselves.

I haven't seen any bitcoin advocate solving that conundrum. If the supposed experts of securing software can't keep their free software safe, how on earth are regular users going to keep their life savings safe on their own?