In reading the discussion here, I'd like to bring up an error that the News Media typically makes when discussing large groups of people... That is, they implicitly or explicitly judge large groups of people -- most notably other countries / other nationalities -- by the actions of the few.
Applied to a group, in this case the NSA, I don't believe that they should be judged by the actions of a few of their members... I am sure there are both socially positive and socially negative actors in the group (and everybody in between), thus it is disingenuous to judge the group in either direction...
Me, I'm completely neutral about the NSA, with one exception, and that is that I feel that companies should NEVER be exposed to secret NSL's... either make those communications a part of the public record for congressional and other legal/legislative oversight, or don't send them in the first place!
But that's not the people of the NSA, whom I hold harmless... That's part of the mission of the NSA, and well, mere mortal citizens are probably not going to change that anytime soon...
If anyone really wants a secure computer, build yourself a VAX-11/780 out of transistors, and write the operating system too... (If I ever did, I'd put on a few of my super-secret cooking recipes ("Mmm, however did you get those BBQ ribs to taste so good? It's a secret!") along with a note "If you got this message, you are definitely elite, and please don't delete my BBQ sauce recipe!").
Try and get that with no RF link in the electronics... I double dare you...<g>
In the meantime, back up your files, and audit your communications regularly for anything you wouldn't want on the news 24/7... <g>
Didn't know that that existed... Looks really nice!!!
(Although, technically, to be really secure, you'd have to audit the entire RF spectrum AND lower frequency wavelengths, i.e., ultrasonic AND have to figure out what to do with signals that are intermittent and/or frequency hop!!! Then of course you have the power supply lines and the ability to send super-low frequency signals via all of that... In other words, you'd have to audit all wave frequencies from all connected devices, simultaneously, and keep in mind such possibilities as frequency hopping, and intermittent periods of silence... like if someone really wanted to be stealthy, they could send something like 1 byte per hour... and that hour is randomized, so it's actually a random interval between 50 and 70 minutes... and/or hide that in random radio noise... the possibilities are endless... <g> (This is why I leave security to the security people and just assume that no information is private anymore...))
But, all of that being said, your link looks really nice, and I didn't know that existed before! It looks cool and worthy of experimentation!
Applied to a group, in this case the NSA, I don't believe that they should be judged by the actions of a few of their members... I am sure there are both socially positive and socially negative actors in the group (and everybody in between), thus it is disingenuous to judge the group in either direction...
Me, I'm completely neutral about the NSA, with one exception, and that is that I feel that companies should NEVER be exposed to secret NSL's... either make those communications a part of the public record for congressional and other legal/legislative oversight, or don't send them in the first place!
But that's not the people of the NSA, whom I hold harmless... That's part of the mission of the NSA, and well, mere mortal citizens are probably not going to change that anytime soon...
If anyone really wants a secure computer, build yourself a VAX-11/780 out of transistors, and write the operating system too... (If I ever did, I'd put on a few of my super-secret cooking recipes ("Mmm, however did you get those BBQ ribs to taste so good? It's a secret!") along with a note "If you got this message, you are definitely elite, and please don't delete my BBQ sauce recipe!").
Try and get that with no RF link in the electronics... I double dare you...<g>
In the meantime, back up your files, and audit your communications regularly for anything you wouldn't want on the news 24/7... <g>
But the NSA? Not evil...