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Re: What is the oldest computer that could be used today for real work? [message #411563 is a reply to message #411557] Sun, 03 October 2021 21:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Charlie Gibbs is currently offline  Charlie Gibbs
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On 2021-10-03, J Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 21:14:46 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
> <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-10-03, Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/10/2021 18:43, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2021-10-01, Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On 23/09/2021 02:15, Dan Espen wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> You only update software when the benefit justifies the cost.
>>>> >
>>>> > The problem is that a lot of updates don't add any real functionality,
>>>> > they just plug security holes that someone has found.
>>>>
>>>> Or they add security holes when the vendors decide they don't
>>>> don't have their hooks into you deeply enough.
>>>
>>> I'm paranoid, but I'm not _that_ paranoid.
>>>
>>> Do you have a source for that assertion?
>>
>> No definite examples, but I did read the entire Windows EULA back
>> around the XP days. I found a clause in which Microsoft claimed
>> entitlement to walk into your machine whenever they felt like it,
>> take a look around, and remove anything which they in their sole
>> estimation felt you should not have.
>>
>> That nobody recognizes automatic updates as a wide-open back door
>> has always amazed me.
>>
>> Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
>
> It's rather distressing the degree to which big corporations will
> trust other big corporations.

It's just as distressing the degree to which individuals will trust
big corporations.

> If everything you do runs on computers that are in someone else's
> physical posession and all your communications with those computers
> travels over a route that neither of you control, security is
> pretty much a joke.

Ditto for the Cloud, in which all your data lives on servers that
you don't control. Even if you could encrypt your data unbreakably,
you're still subject to ransomware attacks (possibly by the owners
of those servers), not to mention accidental loss. I can't see why
more people don't find this obvious and arrange their own backups.

"All your data are belong to us."

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