On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Governments just don't give a damn about your desktop. Sorry if that > bruises your ego. They may be interested in your email and Websurfing > in the unlikely event that you are a "person of interest", but they > can get that from your provider.
Correct, if they would spy my machine, they would risk, that I would notice it soon or later, but if they do it at another location, that is beyond my scope. OTOH they might be interested to get the private openPGP keys, just to take a look, if we're "persons of interest", so a backdoor to our PCs would be from interest for them too. The solution is very simple. My machine that is for everyday usage doesn't contain secrets. It's not a secure machine and I'm aware of this fact. If I ever have the need to share top secrets, I would set up another machine, with all kinds of protections and I only would connect it to the Internet, when it's absolutely needed. We e.g. could decrypt and read mails on a machine, that is never connected to the Internet and then e.g. use a self build (self soldered) USB stick to transmit it between our computers etc. pp.. The needed security depends to the kind of action. Talking about illegal, but soft drugs in some countries does need a little bit of protection, writing about a dirty bomb does need much protection, resp. shouldn't be done. I don't think that there are large communities of terrorists talking about dirty bombs, the less people who are aware about this, the more secure it would be. The USA and similar countries IMO aren't dangerous for most of us, since I suspect that less of us are terrorists. China and similar countries are a problem, because they are dangerous for journalists etc.. 2 Cents -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371746502.644.51.camel@archlinux