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  • Good point about bindfsing it at a different location, I'll test it. And a better point about the security. While I'm the sole user of the distro, I'm not the sole user of the physical computer. Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 0:14
  • @LuisMachuca If you're the only user of that operating system on that computer, you're probably fine (while hardware backdoors are possible in theory, they are not (yet?) common in the wild). But if there are other users using the same operating system (even if they aren't logged in at the same time as you), they can easily read your keys. Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 0:18
  • Luckily I'm not too concerned with HW backdoors (yet?). Laptops are too finicky for dongle-backdooring and at that point the attacker is close to me enough that on a practical level xkcd.com/538 is more feasible. Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 17:19