infosec advice: don't use computers
@julia unironically good advice
@julia infosec advice: if required to use a computer, keep a shotgun on standby to punch a hole through the computer if it does Something It Shouldn't
@thememesniper @julia but is your shotgun running the latest firmware?
@thememesniper @julia Instructions unclear, 4.4 billion shotgun shells emptied into computer.
(oh my bad I'm replying to a year old post lmaooo)
@thememesniper @julia Yes, they are dangerous. Cartoon from the great @jensorensen

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Was a mistake to trap lightning in rocks and teach them to think.

@julia Wasn't the Kremlin renewing its typewriter stocks not too long ago?
@julia i am a "cybersecurity professional" and can confirm this is sage advice
@julia Where else will I cuddle girls all day 
@f @julia cuddle girls standing on grass
@julia Iโ€™d like to think that Iโ€™ve modded and tinkered all my personal electronics to the point where they are to broken to leak information even if they wanted to. Except for the printer, it is isolated with an air-gap and Iโ€™m sure it still finds a way to encode my personal details on every page.
@julia even then you're still vulnerable to the smombies around you
@julia fuck tech, i use rocks for my calculations.
@julia my PC is rigged with a shaped charge in case it ever does something unexpected
@privateger @julia good for you! Smart move. I remember when we weren't prepared for when the M5 went out of control. #StarTrek
@julia Alternatively don't ever connect it to the internet or connect any media to it.
@julia way too much attack surface. I recommend to just "Don't"
@julia happiness advice: don't use computers
@julia infosec advice: permanently encrypt your paper records by burning them
@julia But an Android phone is safe, right? ๐Ÿ˜‹โ€‹

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Yes. Only phones.  

 what? Phones are also 'puters? What the hell?

Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

Yoshitaka Sakurada is responsible for ensuring the 2020 Olympic Games are not hacked.

@julia No, but like... actually. For the most part, every single application you run has access to all of your documents.

A single security vulnerability in any of them, and every document in your Documents folder is in danger. Because no one decided to make basic permissions and sandboxing the default at any point???

I will never let this go

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I've been fantasizing for years about going back to hunting-and-gathering. (Just the small problem of an available healthy ecosystem....)

@julia When I first read Dune as an adolescent, I would have been astonished that I would come to believe the Butlerian Jihad was a good idea.
@julia Reposting this using a desktop. Then again, I live "dangerously".... or "stupidly". ๐Ÿ˜œ
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My hope is that one day we might all be secure from the threat of computers.
@foolishowl
@julia Also: Don't let computers use you.

@vik Sweet dreams are ... something?

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@julia Because of air pollution, the surgeon general advises the population to stop breathing.

@julia <Narrator Voice .oO( David Atten-i-cant-spell-it-properly-anyway> In infosec, nothing is black and white. There is always a component of 'it depends'...

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... that advice, though, may be the only exception,... the only universal truth of infosec. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚