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1) It's a huge pain to set up a single Windows system for offline updates now. 2) My opinion of Schneier's technical competence, at least on a tactical level,
by rdl 13y ago
1) It's a huge pain to set up a single Windows system for offline updates now.
2) My opinion of Schneier's technical competence, at least on a tactical level, is not actually (nor has it ever been) particularly high. He's a Windows guy, and "management level". He is a good politician and spokesperson. He's still good enough for this particular thing, and much better at the human side, and essentially famous/rich enough to be immune from legal action as long as he's careful, and well known to people like GG. So, a good choice.
- MWil 13y ago"He's a Windows guy" simply does not sit well with me in that scenario. What does it say that he can't be either inconvenienced or convinced by Greenwald or convinced by the very documents he's examining or recognize in the process of writing his post to take more precaution. It's like he's trying to air-gap in the way that I try a tomato every 7 years to see if my taste buds have changed. They haven't, so I'll stick to what tastes good. But if a famine overtakes the world and tomatoes are somehow part of a new staple diet, I'll allow myself to be inconvenienced if it means that much to my survival.
- rdl 13y agoUh, Greenwald is even more of an idiot technically by orders of magnitude.