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All Bitcoin Wallets On Android Vulnerable To Theft

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:48AM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

judgecorp writes "Bitcoin users have been warned that storing them in a wallet app on Android is insecure, A weakness in Android's random number generator means its random numbers may not be so random, giving attackers a chance of breaking into the wallet. those with Bitcoins have been advised to put them elsewhere, by bitcoin.org"

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How can an OS have such a fundamental problem? by Karganeth · 2013-08-12 00:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

It's ridiculous in this day and age that an OS can fail to make random numbers properly. That's one of the most basic operations. How lazy/incompetent are the Google programmers?