Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com writes:
On 10 July 2014 09:49, lee lee@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com writes:
On 10 July 2014 01:10, lee lee@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.
As in "A human doesn't need to be compromised ..."? :)
The difference is that computers are good at automating things reliably, people are not. I don't calculate all my hashes by hand either.
The kind of reliability you're referring to is like a two-edged sword. Computers are subject to all kinds of failures, plus human errors, and they lack human intelligence. That puts computers at a big disadvantage, and when a computer does something wrong, it's somewhat likely to be doing it wrong all the time.