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. The
difference is that computers are good at automating things reliably,
people are not. I don't calculate all my hashes by hand either.
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imalone
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