Donald Trump says 'no computer is safe'
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Donald Trump says 'no computer is safe'
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#3This might be the most pertinent thing he has ever said. But when he says "If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier.", it is not entirely safe, one still need encryption because mail can be intercepted.
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#4If you intend on doing crime then really it is safer to not use computers for the kind of fraud people like Trump do. In a democracy we demand accountability, can be overcome the normal accounting rules and run the entire us budget off the back of a napkin lol
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#5If you intend on doing crime then really it is safer to not use computers for the kind of fraud people like Trump do. In a democracy we demand accountability, can be overcome the normal accounting rules and run the entire us budget off the back of a napkin lol
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#6If you intend on doing crime then really it is safer to not use computers for the kind of fraud people like Trump do. In a democracy we demand accountability, can be overcome the normal accounting rules and run the entire us budget off the back of a napkin lol
The NSA would be able to see what he's doing, the kind of blanket surveillance he wants would also catch his own wrongdoing, so he wants to do things Mafia style
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#7This might be the most pertinent thing he has ever said. But when he says "If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier.", it is not entirely safe, one still need encryption because mail can be intercepted.
Yeah when it comes to what the NSA may have, maybe no private key is uncrackable. But sending things on paper, even if you use a cypher like the Masons, multiple people have to know it for it to work, so its like having a private key that is used by multiple people, also any cypher on paper would be trivial for the NSA or other foreign NSA equivalents to crack, even easier than a private key.
Re: Donald Trump says 'no computer is safe'
#8This might be the most pertinent thing he has ever said. But when he says "If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier.", it is not entirely safe, one still need encryption because mail can be intercepted.
Yeah when it comes to what the NSA may have, maybe no private key is uncrackable. But sending things on paper, even if you use a cypher like the Masons, multiple people have to know it for it to work, so its like having a private key that is used by multiple people, also any cypher on paper would be trivial for the NSA or other foreign NSA equivalents to crack, even easier than a private key.
You are right.
So keep the computers off the network and send an encrypted flash drive with a key ? The latency will go through the roof but the bandwidth might be acceptable
NB: I know that computers off the network can still leak information
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#9Trump's stand on technology, crystallized into the "fat hacker" and computer-expert son, is arguably his most accidentally good position.
The divergence of opinion on this between HN and reddit is also interesting.