New tech, old problems.

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Windows 7?  Better for stability, and gaming.  Also full of holes.  Not as bad as 8, 8.1, and definitely not as bad as 10.  Those leave the doors unlocked, windows open, and provide maps to private data, not just for MS but for .gov, .corp, .mil, .int, .cop, but .crook too.  More holes than a "no shooting" sign in backwater Iowa.  Just getting it hooked up without becoming infected is a trick.  Can't trust service providers, they sold out and give up on any request without ever even letting you know you are directly being hacked.  Black courts decide, or more rubber stamp, the decision to flout your God given rights.

No, probably can't really win, but I can make them earn their blood money.  And, so, I am looking at ways of doing this and that.  The thing is, if you go too far in the opposite direction of .gov you land in a pure .crook.  They are quite similar.  One just wants all your information, connections, proclivities, and such.  The other is really only interested in your accounts.  Both, given enough laxity from scrutiny, will kill you dead, only the reasons are slightly different, up front.  In the end they are the same, to cover their sins... which, oddly, they deny exist.  Stalin didn't like the world to know that he murdered 40 million of his own, at least.  In spite of not believing, somehow, that the butchery was evil.  Odd how even those without a conscience or understanding of God know what they do is evil.  As to what is going on in the Catholic church?  Just understand, Stalin was well trained by the Jesuits.  Yeah, really should ban that group from the church, for good and all.

Anyway... there are little ways and whiles.  None of them are perfect.  None of them will work if your system is already jacked.  Assume all Windows machines connected to the internet for any time are hacked.  So... best to do these sorts of things before introducing viruses, trojans, and the like.  Might even look at how to freeze off components, once installed.  Flashing, erasing, eliminating.  The problem is that there are so many components with their own sorts of memory.  Some are required, but may be infected.  Anything made in China is suspect.  Did you read that sentence?  Yes, it's true.

Don't think of this as paranoia.  These are simply the facts.  If you aren't aware of them, that doesn't change their nature.  You probably don't know that you can only fall just so fast through space... actually through that atmosphere.  You will only "fall" in space if there is a significantly dense mass close enough to pull you.  There is a limit as to how fast you can fall in the atmosphere due to a number of factors, it is called the terminal velocity.  Due to friction and a few other things, this may vary from object to object, object to person, and person to person.  Just because you did not know that does not make it not so, nor does me knowing it make me... confused.  I'll happily bet money on it.  Why don't you know?  Because it is too difficult for most to handle, change, without, you know, actually realizing the fix we are in, and even so, most are too weak to challenge authority.  And... it might be dangerous to attempt to sidestep, trip that up, or figure a way to be invisible.  But it is true.

Still, I am looking at ways.  I figure most security suites are corrupted.  Men in black have visited and laid out the rules, big corporations have suggested their OS's won't operate without holes for themselves, other .corps, and .gov.  And courts have been corrupted to rule silently, and against freedom.  So, I have to look at this practically.  I might be able to create small windows of privacy.  I might be able to shut off snooper for a bit.  But the game is rigged.  Still, if I can get it to work, just a bit...  We'll see.

Just... mansplaining a few things for the world.  Manspreading, ideologically, for all to see.  Yeah.  I'm not a modern man.  I'm a real one.  With a bit of a penchant for not going along to get along.  *wink*  The machine isn't together, and the last of the last (save maybe a few connectors or extenders) should be in by Tuesday, so a start probably Wednesday.  So I have a bit of time to try to figure out how to set things as cautiously as possible.  James Bond never had to do these things quite so diy, mostly.  But then they almost always knew what, or who, he was doing.  Not my gig.

Oh, and I may have found the type of dog I want.  Maybe?  What do you think?  I'm thinking... easy to clean up after, cheap to feed, no worries about frostbitten paws in winter or overheating in summer.  Can take everywhere, if I can teach him to be quiet.  And, while not a fighter, an excellent dog to lead off a major predator or act as a barking alarm that is difficult to quiet!

ht Blur Brain