well there's 2 things you need to think about, do you want to secure your wallet or your whole pc/mac/linux system?

securing your wallet, use the password lock at least (doh), better still stick your wallet on a usb drive (even one of those password protected devices) so there's no wallet on your machine at all until you mount the usb drive. keep backups on a 2nd usb drive as well.

i would never use cloud backups but if you think it's ok, encrypt the wallet, stuff it in an encrypted rar file as well (paranoid? put #1 encrypted rar inside a 2nd rar). and then use more than 1 cloud.

securing your system - truecrypt whole system encryption (windoze only) is the best way to go.
or there's a way of doing it for freebsd systems as well (via geli, google it).
linux i dunno, i only used *bsd.

if you're in the paranoid security department, put your whole encrypted OS on a usb drive so there's no bitcoin software on your main machine. keep a backup of course in case the usb flash runs out of write cycles.


all imho of course

as a n00b i just started buying some bitcoins and picked probably the worst exchange, wide spreads and low volume ... live n learn lol

just opened a tradehill account, they have tighter spreads and better prices. hopefully better service.

for now im just learning how it all works, havent actually spent any bcs yet. might try some trading between exchanges to earn some extra bcs for fun but i'm anly talking tiny amounts here.

hi, i joined as my i'm interested in net anonymity & things like that.

learned about bitcoins some time ago but never bothered to read more until i had some time off work.