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Having several dedicated accounts is a wise approach. However, I doubt many people are doing the same, because of the effort required. Opsec is really, really hard. All you have to make is one mistake, and you are done. But, I guess having several accounts at least limits the damage.
Why is everyone ignoring the argument that Truecrypt and Veracrypt don't require a TPM to very securely encrypt a hard drive; therefore, TPM's are not even necessary to prevent a laptop thief from having access to corporate data or a company's internal network? If a securely-encrypted hard drive can be accomplished without a TPM (in or outside the CPU), why is a TPM in the CPU desirable? It seems to provide no real improvement in security will providing enormous potential for abuse. The only scenario that I can envision is that an employee simply refuses to encrypt his hard drive, even after he has been threatened with being fired if he does not. Does this happen often enough to justify the potential for abuse that a TPM inside the CPU affords--and in fact, assured abuse in countries like North Korea. By the way, I read today the Dell and Intel had decided not to use Pluton. How do you explain that if Pluton is so necessary.
The article doesn't say the government is the reason children could not have decent chemistry sets in the 1970's and '80's. That's the straw-man argument. However, I can't prove that fear of the government, due to what could be seen as an anti-government article, is the reason Hacker News pulled the post from the feed. I really don't know.
"Care to provide specific examples of what you have tried and been unable to say because the government explicitly tells you not to? " I would love to, despite your setting up a straw-man argument. I posted a link to this article: http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/no-vote.html on Hacker News. It received about 2000 page views in less than 30 minutes before it was pulled from the feed.
Yes, I'm the author. I try hard to accommodate as many browsers/apps/screen sizes/devices/reader preferences as possible. But given the large number of them, it is not possible to make every reader 100% happy. I've found that keeping things simple generally works well for most people. For those who want to leave comments about the problems associated with their particular approach to reading my website, I have given them a place to do so: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/cheapskatesguide-and-b....
Thanks for the feedback. In trying to make the text look good in medium to small screens, I hadn't considered what the page could look like for people reading on a screen that is more than 1440 pixels across. I've modified the css file. Clear your browsing history and try looking at the article again.