probably (or at least potentially) infected public computer.
I'm curious: what are the real probabilities of this possibility to happen?
I use to say that it is better safe than sorry, but I have the feeling that every time someone poses a question about how to create a wallet safely we all go into the worst case scenario and take for granted that this is what is going to happen (me the first one).
Personally, and after questioning my own conventional thoughts, if I had to create it on a public computer, unless I was storing there all my savings, I think that maybe it is not necessary to be so fearful. I guess that many of us know that it is possible to infect these computers with a keylogger or whatever, but then because of ethics and self-control almost no one does it (just some script-kiddies, maybe). And if it happened, afaik, public computers are usually reset every night in order to keep them "clean", apart from other security measures.
So it is not 100% safe, ok, but could we say it is safe in the 99% of the cases? just like using condoms? yes, accidents happen but I think we keep focusing too much on them.
Please, if this reasoning is wrong, challenge it, I consider myself more a noob than any other label in this topic, but sometimes it may be good to hear an outsider's version on mostly consensual thesis like this one
creating whatever on a public computer is not safe.