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It seems that Richard Stallman is not so paranoid after all: > I am careful in how I use the Internet. > I generally do not connect to web sites from my own m
by tarruda 9y ago
It seems that Richard Stallman is not so paranoid after all:
> I am careful in how I use the Internet.
> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).
Ref: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
- OldSchoolJohnny 9y agoRMS remains a rambling nutjob and none of this is really applicable to the issue at hand.
- tarruda 9y agoThe spectre attack is exploitable via javascript and there's no software patch that can fix it. IoW, it is not possible to safely run untrusted code in the same computer that has sentitive information.
- gatmne 9y ago>RMS remains a rambling nutjob and none of this is really applicable to the issue at hand. Ramblings that this industry has repeatedly proven to be correct, and continue to do so. I'd take his ramblings over a cheap ad hominem any day. I encourage you to try being more civil the next time you comment on this site.
- djsumdog 9y agoWell he was right about the Intel ME vulnerabilities
- nasredin 9y agoA "rambling nutjob" that has been proven correct time and time and time again. We need more people with RMS-type views in Google, Facebook, etc.