I...right now I’m kind of in disbelief that I am so far ahead of everyone else that I could *literally buy the entire planet for under $20USD,* and no one stopped me.
It’s called progress. In my youth, we only had a bridge to sell you.
I reason (as is standard) that the only real way that my machine would be compromised is if someone has physical access; and if that’s the case there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it.
This is incorrect. The main ways computers get compromised are as part of broadly-targeted attacks using open ports, trojanized downloads, and vulnerabilities in the web browser, email client and other network-facing software. For physical-access attacks, the main one is that the computer gets physically stolen, powered off in the process, and never returned, in which case having encrypted the hard disk matters a lot.
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It’s called progress. In my youth, we only had a bridge to sell you.
This is incorrect. The main ways computers get compromised are as part of broadly-targeted attacks using open ports, trojanized downloads, and vulnerabilities in the web browser, email client and other network-facing software. For physical-access attacks, the main one is that the computer gets physically stolen, powered off in the process, and never returned, in which case having encrypted the hard disk matters a lot.
Linux has had the advantages it has for twenty years...so why now?
I have two default questions when attempting to choose between potential actions: I ask both “why” and “why not?”.
This link seems to be broken.
Is this a reference to a missing footnote?