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I find it somewhat amazing that a few months ago, I'd have read an article like this and thought "Man, talk about paranoid." But today, after all that I've rea
by nlh 13y ago
I find it somewhat amazing that a few months ago, I'd have read an article like this and thought "Man, talk about paranoid."
But today, after all that I've read and learned recently, it makes perfect sense.
- easytiger 13y agoI read a comment just like this a couple of months ago. Someone saying that until this point they thought Richard Stallman was a complete paranoid nutjob but it turns out he was completely correct. I guess that's why he will be seen as a visionary in so many areas. And speaking of stallman and airgaps: http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html > I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/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.
- xanderstrike 13y agoWhile I admire his dedication to free software and security, I find it sad that he who has done so much for the internet and modern computing eschews most of it.
- ygra 13y agoYou could have said something similar about Dijkstra, who most of his life didn't even use a computer.
- easytiger 13y agoIhad a formal methods lecturer who insists that no computer scientist should be allowed to use a computer until they are 40
- xanderstrike 13y agoYes but most of his life was lived before personal computing was really a thing.
- devcpp 13y agoThis is for personal reasons. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsing https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsi...