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From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize•io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:39:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534EF88F.0@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534EF64C.8050000@gmail.com>

On 04/16/2014 02:29 PM, Kevin wrote:
> Okay, so how about an autoupdate function which pulls a work around off 
> the server?  Sooner or later, the vulnerabilities must be faced.

NO. Bitcoin Core will never have an auto-update functionality. That
would be a single point of failure whose compromise could result in the
theft of every last bitcoin held in a Bitcoin Core wallet.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-16  8:14 Wladimir
2014-04-16  8:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-04-16  9:41   ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 11:06     ` [Bitcoin-development] mid-term bitcoin security (Re: Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)) Adam Back
2014-04-18 14:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-18 14:39       ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-16 15:12 ` [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Kevin
2014-04-16 15:20   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:28     ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 16:27       ` Kevin
2014-04-16 16:35         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:41           ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 16:44             ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:50               ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 18:59             ` Kevin
2014-04-16 19:43       ` Adam Back
2014-04-16 20:42     ` Roy Badami
2014-04-16 21:10       ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-16 21:29         ` Kevin
2014-04-16 21:39           ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2014-04-16 22:00             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:23   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-17  7:39   ` Wladimir
     [not found] ` <CACKnu1prEkZb5L4bGeKfjHtW+1CLmAuYr2-OWq0z5z+SvxhLTg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17  7:27   ` Wladimir

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