This. In a recent post a commenter discussed how Bruce uses a machine not connected to any network ever for highly sensitive material. The problem with that is

This. In a recent post a commenter discussed how Bruce uses a machine not connected to any network ever for highly sensitive material. The problem with that is we really have no adequate indication of exactly what in all of this is really compromised. The conspiracy theorist in me suggests the whole of the internet in all its layers have been nurtured by our government. Exactly what part of that the NSA was involved in seems irrelevant. I have to wonder which operating systems, which network devices or any other devices that can run code and listen in. The only advice if any of it were true would be to scrap it all and start over. Scrap multiple decades of work by really smart people due to a few "bad seeds" being planted during the harvest? Unfortunately that's the only true remedy unless someone can really unwind the rootkit in our lives that is the NSA. It's an analogy of a computer being infected with a virus. Do we try to go back to a backup we hope isn't compromised or do we reformat and start over? We're all trying the former because I don't think anyone really has a grasp on or even wants to think about the latter (I certainly don't).