On Thu 18 Mar 2021 at 21:09:58 +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Come on, as soon as you go out to the street you can be run over by a > > bus... > > > > You'll still take some precautions, as it might enhance your odds of > > survival :) > > > >> Why should I bother with your encryption efforts, when I can read your > >> screen? > > > > This is a good point: one of the weak points of E2E encryptions is, > > indeed, the one end. The other is... the other end ;-) > > If I were to advise someone on using encryption I would recommend the > isolated island solution.
Well worth considering. Isle of Man version is popular. > As Snowden said do not use a phone with a microphone on it ;-) How wise! > Anything that is connected to a network is already compromised. If you are I wish I had realised that before getting involved in this internet stuff. > paranoid - isolate the machine where you read and write, encrypt and > decrypt your messages! I was thinking of starting a crowdfund project for > such a device, but no time to even draft a business plan. Perhaps you and all the others could use -debian-offtopic to air opinions about life and big-tech? I'll crowdfund the move there :). Just a suggestion from someone who hasn't derived a single benefit from this long-running conversation on privacy. -- Brian. > >
