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Step #1 to protect your private data - Have a separate computer, Ubuntu (or some secure OS) installed and disconnect it from the internet permanently. If you wa
by neya 14y ago
Step #1 to protect your private data - Have a separate computer, Ubuntu (or some secure OS) installed and disconnect it from the internet permanently. If you want to access any data, just go use the computer and save the data then and there. If you want to transfer data from this computer to another computer, just use a separate encrypted pen drive to transfer between files securely.
If you don't want to use it, just turn it off. I'd love to see how the Chinese/Russian hackers
can hack such a machine, unless they have physical access to them.
- tomp 14y agoBut what is a gigacorp to do? Make all their employees never use Windows/email/internet again during work hours, and run around the office building carrying USBs? Also, how can you be sure that Ubuntu is secure? It seems to me that there is a general problem with all *NIX systems with regards of how they (mis)manage permissions (either file permissions or OS permissions), and I'm very sad that not even the newly-developed OSes (Android) have not fixed that!
- 16s 14y agoHow does Unix mismanage file permissions? User, group, other and read, write execute has been around for decades. You won't find a simpler, more understandable system for file permissions. There are many more complex systems added on top of this, but the basics are simple and easy to manage.
- tomp 14y agoAll permissions are inherited by all user's processes, with no better granularity possible. That is a recipe for disaster and the core issue with most of our security problems. Android is a bit better, since it has specific permissions on a per-process level (or so it looks like), but you can't really manage them.
- datr 14y agoDidn't stuxnet spread itself to air gaped machines through USB sticks?
- blablabla123 14y agoStep #2 migrate to OpenVMS ;)