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How Paranoid Are You ?
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<blockquote data-quote="DeepWeb" data-source="post: 768711" data-attributes="member: 63811"><p>Very paranoid. To me, Windows is swiss cheese. Absolutely no guarantee of security. I run my own local resolver because I don't like the idea of DNS cache poisoning, change my VPN servers regularly, my passwords are at least 32 characters wherever they can be, in my free time I google about post-quantum cryptography and get mad that we haven't switched to those technologies yet. It can never be too early. grrrr I just want the latest and best encryption that I can. I don't look at malware writers as my enemy but the surveillance state. I know I can't do much but I will do the most to make it harder to collect my data. I check for security updates more than twice a day. I rolled back to 1803 from 1809 because my local DNS resolver AND my VPN refuse to work because Microsoft is forcing us to adopt IPv6 which allows them to track us more easily AND then there's the little fact that the latest version of Windows stores your clipboard history. There is a button to disable it but can we know for sure that your clipboard history is truly disabled and not traveling all over the Internet? Now I'm paranoid about how to transfer passwords from my vault to the password field, thank god for auto fill BUT autofill exposes me to the risk of filling in invisible username password fields that have been detected on several websites. And what happens to sample files that these great cloud antiviruses collect? Are they stored in an encrypted way and then discarded?</p><p>And then there is the mic and camera on our laptops and phones and hidden chips the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, American spy agencies implant into our devices and CPUs (hello Intel ME). My paranoia is justified, let's not call it that. I would call it healthy skepticism and resistance to surveillance by government and corporate entities without consent. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeepWeb, post: 768711, member: 63811"] Very paranoid. To me, Windows is swiss cheese. Absolutely no guarantee of security. I run my own local resolver because I don't like the idea of DNS cache poisoning, change my VPN servers regularly, my passwords are at least 32 characters wherever they can be, in my free time I google about post-quantum cryptography and get mad that we haven't switched to those technologies yet. It can never be too early. grrrr I just want the latest and best encryption that I can. I don't look at malware writers as my enemy but the surveillance state. I know I can't do much but I will do the most to make it harder to collect my data. I check for security updates more than twice a day. I rolled back to 1803 from 1809 because my local DNS resolver AND my VPN refuse to work because Microsoft is forcing us to adopt IPv6 which allows them to track us more easily AND then there's the little fact that the latest version of Windows stores your clipboard history. There is a button to disable it but can we know for sure that your clipboard history is truly disabled and not traveling all over the Internet? Now I'm paranoid about how to transfer passwords from my vault to the password field, thank god for auto fill BUT autofill exposes me to the risk of filling in invisible username password fields that have been detected on several websites. And what happens to sample files that these great cloud antiviruses collect? Are they stored in an encrypted way and then discarded? And then there is the mic and camera on our laptops and phones and hidden chips the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, American spy agencies implant into our devices and CPUs (hello Intel ME). My paranoia is justified, let's not call it that. I would call it healthy skepticism and resistance to surveillance by government and corporate entities without consent. (y) [/QUOTE]
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