[_delirium]

You have considerable risk keeping the wallet locally, just of a different kind. The most common way people have lost money locally thus far is probably just losing the wallet file without having backups. A worm or trojan whose payload steals people's bitcoins is also plausible, though afaik there haven't been any yet.

[smtddr]

>>A worm or trojan whose payload steals people's bitcoins is also plausible, though afaik there haven't been any yet.

There have been a couple of these actually:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109000/bitcoinstealing-malwa...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244772/Bitcoin_marke...

http://www.coindesk.com/cointhief-mac-malware-steals-bitcoin...

And the most famous probably, cryptolocker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker ...though this is more a ransom strategy than just out-right theft.

[Bootvis]

Which indeed is my #1 fear, something nasty can be one `pip install` away.

[maxerickson]

If you have enough money tied up in it to make you uneasy it would seem sensible to be using dedicated hardware for your coin management (with only the bare necessities of software installed on it).

[Bootvis]

Thanks for the tip, motivated me to dust off the old Pentium 4 I have here and install OpenBSD on it.