Eh... well, I suppose you could say the same thing of the entire internet. The internet, after all, had its origins as a DARPA project - that's the USA Department of Defense's Advance Research Project Agency...
My question, though, is how to make our parts of it resilient to malware and so on. Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote: > https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e > > > On 2017-11-15 20:35, 'Skip Cave' via Chat wrote: >> >> I like to use a Chromebook in incognito mode with ad blockers. I use G >> Mail/G Suite with multi-factor authentication for word >> processing/spreadsheets. etc. No data or apps on the on the machine. If >> the >> Chromebook stops working or I drop it in a lake, I get another one, sign >> in, and keep going. >> >> Skip >> >> Skip Cave >> Cave Consulting LLC >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:52 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> All >>> >>>> Basically Intel put a trojan (a MINIX kernal in builtin hardware) in at >>>> a >>> >>> level below which even the best practices cannot get at. It runs even >>> when >>> the machine is "off". Needs to be unplugged. There are vectors besides >>> the >>> internet. Basically all USB sticks are hackable. >>> >>> Bitrot is the, for me, most serious issue. >>> i keep to basics, like ASCII, HTML etc. >>> Eschewing helpful IDEs, and other magic's >>> or at least use those where i know, >>> and can revert to >>> the basics >>> >>> ~greg >>> http://krsnadas.org >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
