>It's not. I'm just not going to accept authoritative arguments on security, sorry. Wrong, you already do. You either don't realize it, or you're being disinge

>It's not. I'm just not going to accept authoritative arguments on security, sorry. Wrong, you already do. You either don't realize it, or you're being disingenuous about it. Did you write 100% of the code of the web browser you used to post your comments? Did you write the OS that browser runs on? Did you write the compiler used to build the OS, and did you provably avoid the sorts of issues brought up in "Reflections on Trusting Trust"? Did you fabricate the chips your OS runs on? Did you design the die mask for those chips? Did you build the chip fab facility? Did you design the locks on the front doors of the chip fab facility? Did you stay awake 24/7 inside the chip fab facility to make sure no-one broke in to conduct an evil maid attack on the process? Unless your answer to all of the above is an honest "yes", at some point in the chain of tech, you accepted an outside authority. So kindly knock it off with the "you're automatically wrong because that's appeal to authority!" nonsense.