[H-GEN] Desktop wars ..... (no not really)

[Andrae Muys]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> "Christopher Biggs" <listjunkie at pobox.com> writes:
  >>The truly paranoid store their SSH keys on hot-plug removeable
>>media such as smart-cards or USB-flash dongles.
> 
> The *truly* paranoid have vetted PGP for security problems, typed it
> in from the back of the book, and boot from a CD-ROM when they need
> access to their crypto.
> 
Nah, that's merely "slightly concerned".  Surely the *truly* paranoid[0] 
compiled their own vetted PGP with their audited compiler, bootstraped 
from hand assembled core, running on their own custom built hardware[1]! 
  Right?

Andrae

[0] ...and before anyone suggests this is excessive, stop and consider 
that this is exactly what various agencies who have need of paranoia do 
sometimes do.

[1] I know most of the list will recognise the reference, but for those 
who haven't seen it Ken Thompsons ACM Turing Award Lecture rewards 
reading.  http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

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Andrae Muys                       But can it generate *quantum* Haiku
<andrae.muys at braintree.com.au>    error messages, in Latin, where each
Engineer                          line of the error message is a
Braintree Communications          palindrome? -- Mike Vanier on perl



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