# Gavin Andresen # 2013-03-31 23:23:33 # https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162522.msg1711886#msg1711886 The only security risk with free bitcoin services is that they'll remember your IP address and associate it with the millibitcoins that they give you. @p{par} If you're the conspiracy theory type, then here's one for you: a very good way for a Three Letter Agency to create a database that correlates bitcoin wallets to real people would be for them to run a free bitcoin service (along with whatever they're currently doing to correlate IP addresses with real people). @p{par}