[hamsternipples]

according to bitcoin's github repo, the epic fail has had a pull request since april now. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4011

it appears that bitcoin devs are dragging their feet here. to quote gmaxwell (the author of the PR),

> it would catch any case where the public keys and the secret keys in the wallet didn't agree with each other, either due to corruption or due to malicious modification (e.g. so that newly issued keys were really someone elses private keys). How much thats worth I dunno.

and for completeness: the relevant issue posted by the OP: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4601