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From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
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Subject: Re: Security?  What "Security"?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:55:57 +0100
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:21:41 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> 
> > candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 06:18 this Monday (GMT):
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:17:35 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My pet rock Gordon asserts that every networked device has a
> >>>> backdoor.
> >>>
> >>> Is Gordon a networked device? How did it communicate that message to
> >>> you?
> >> 
> >> A networked rock?
> > 
> > Gordon is a primary node on the Extranet but he and I have
> > a direct P2P telepathic link for a shorter ping.
> 
> So he is a networked device. And according to his statement, every 
> networked device has a backdoor. Therefore Gordon has a backdoor.
> 
> Is Gordon still to be trusted?

Of course, he's as solid as a rock; not that we worry about lack 
of privacy.  As everybody should know, privacy is utterly dead 
and security is naught but an illusion.  

In any case, life is just a dream.  (# sh-boom, sh-boom)

-- 
^Ï^.    Sn!pe, VC, PTB, FIBS

My pet rock Gordon eagerly awaits the expected socialist paradise.