Summary
The Hewlett-Packard e-mail scandal and reports of hackers stealing thousands of credit-card numbers off the Web, not to mention the government's unending surveillance schemes, have brought me to this, the formulation of Fred's Principle: If a computer can be connected to the Internet, regard everything on it as being in the public domain.
Sure, you can take common security measures (and should) to reduce risks from spyware, viruses and "phishing." Most of us probably have little that we need to keep secret. But the whole structure of computation today the Internet, operating systems, software and so on is so inherently porous that even security specialists can't be sure they haven't been compromised. Read, for example, SecurityFocus.com, and you find a constant stream of new attacks on security.See the full content of this document
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Keep Secrets Off Your Computer
Consider Web bugs, which are simple, common and well-known among geeks but probably known only to a minute fraction of ordinary co...
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