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> Jesus christ, and he is using Windows !? WTF. He is going against his own advice - to use public/free software as often as possible. I can think of a few rea
by stordoff 13y ago
> Jesus christ, and he is using Windows !? WTF. He is going against his own advice - to use public/free software as often as possible.
I can think of a few reasons why that might be reasonable, but I agree that the advise could be better.
1. He IS using Linux/BSD/similar, but has changed the article to Windows to be useful to Windows users and/or add some obscurity to his setup.
2. More familiar with Windows security practices, so more confident in overall security by using Windows (not that really helps with 0days or NSA backdoors though)
3. He has NSA docs that show Linux is compromised in some way and Windows isn't (seems unlikely TBH).
That said, it does seem very odd to stick with Windows if you feel it necessary to air-gap the machine.