> There are degrees of “control over your hardware” and complete > control hardware is rarely going to happen.
That's not what the original poster was positing, though: the original poster was positing *someone else* had complete control -- and trying to make a system that works in that environment is a fool's errand. > then we are all compromised, so why are we even bothering to use > tools like GnuPG... Excellent question. Vint Cerf has said that in his estimate one of five desktop PCs is completely pwn3d by malware. We don't pay enough attention to that. We tend to assume the security of the endpoints, and that's simply not a supportable assumption nowadays.
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