Tracy R Reed wrote:
rbw wrote:
You should use systems, don't let systems use you. Secure your own
#$^&... Yesterday.
I think we should do *BOTH*. Secure your own shit. But also consider
whether that will be possible if we do not make at least some effort to
ensure that the system makes that easy to do. In places like Vietnam
there is no system to try to assure privacy. The banks have not had a
history of being trustworthy no matter how recent. And the government
definitely isn't trustworthy. It is far harder for a Vietnamese to
secure their own shit there than it is for you and me to do so here.
Assuming (granted big assumption) you have the
ability to get a computer system and have funds
for monthly fees in Vietnam...
Wouldn't you do in Vietnam as you mentioned you
do with GPG, local portable/controllable
archives and far remote subscription backups
(and things like overseas proxy servers)? (I
defer to your experience...) And how is what
someone in Vietnam faces functionally different
from what our responsibilities to ourselves are
here?
As far as banking and electronic transactions I
don't think anyone on this planet can think
their activities are anywhere near secure:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/06/global_banking_.html
Personally, lame as it is, I try to get cash
from one place only and use cash if possible so
some NSA dweeb doesn't GoogleEarth my butt...
They've had a plan in the works since at least
the early 70's to deal with miscreants like me...
When I first was in a position to give out
e-mail accounts at the university (back when my
dept. did it because university IT saw no meed
to let university students have e-mail) one of
the most common questions noobie e-mail users
asked was, "How secure is it?" I used to tell
them that they had to assume everything and
anything they did electronically was immediately
known to everyone else everywhere and if they
didn't they were probably going to regret it.
The other thing I told them was that their
greatest level of security was based in the fact
that nobody cares what they were doing.
That second rule is no longer true from what I
can tell. There are those that are interested in
what we are doing and 15 years later they now
have the tools to make it practical to care what
we are doing.
rb (I have a really bad attitude about where we
are and where we are going) w
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