Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> writes:
On 10 July 2014 09:49, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On 10 July 2014 01:10, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>
>>> You trust computers too much.
>>>
>>
>> No, I'm pragmatic in what can be trusted. If key components of your
>> system are compromised then what are you protecting and what are you
>> protecting from? Misdirected paranoia is pointless.
>
> A computer doesn't need to be compromised to not work correctly or not
> as expected.
>
The same can be said of manually mounting things every time.
As in "A human doesn't need to be compromised ..."? :)
The difference is that computers are good at automating things
reliably, people are not. I don't calculate all my hashes by hand
either.
The kind of reliability you're referring to is like a two-edged sword.
Computers are subject to all kinds of failures, plus human errors, and
they lack human intelligence. That puts computers at a big
disadvantage, and when a computer does something wrong, it's somewhat
likely to be doing it wrong all the time.
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