# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-12-15 16:11:42
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54603.msg651211#msg651211

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 @p{brk}
... and that's exactly why I discourage people from doing things like that. It is too easy for two "copies" of a wallet to get out-of-sync. @p{par}

You have to be a geek and muck around with copying the wallet.dat file from one place to another to get into trouble, and that is by design. I have no problem at all with geeky tools that let you do dangerous things (like PyWallet). @p{par}

The JSON-RPC interface is trickier, because adding dangerous functionality there might encourage web services to do not-so-smart things like sending private keys over unencrypted/unprotected channels ("Email the private key as a Christmas gift" works great for a while, and then the bad guys start looking for privkeys in traffic they're sniffing and spend them before your Dad can....)  @p{brk}