On 09/06/2016 12:47 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote: > With a good critical thinking base, it is fairly easy to avoid the 'evil' of > technology and technology-enabled communications while > benefiting greatly from broad knowledge, understanding, and, ideally, > beneficial connections. If you are limited to or you choose > the path of ignorance, you may fall for anything. > > Good critical thinking capability, along with a good awareness of scams, > cognitive bias mistake patterns, and risk analysis, is a > multi-layered defense-in-depth system, with the penultimate safety of a > cognitive-enabled application level firewall. Lesser mental > architectures try to stop everything with a port-based firewalls or > anti-virus, but they're wide open to easily constructed phishing > and zero-day attack. Openness to memetic infection is like allowing anyone > to run code as root at the host level rather than in a > throwaway Docker container. The opposite problem is being so afraid of being > taken again that you won't incorporate anything new > because you don't trust that you can discriminate. That's a lot like > refusing to update your software for fear of exploit but > leaving yourself open to now-known bugs and gaps that have been fixed. Or > you simply are used to your current pattern and dislike > change; to be safe, you may reject most input. > > I left home at 15 and taught myself programming etc., so I have a bias toward > self-sufficiency: I didn't believe in sheltering my > children except at the extremes; they are thoroughly resistant to memetic > infection. > > sdw
I like that :) It's always useful to compartmentalize through virtualization. > On 9/6/16 10:55 AM, Peressim wrote: >> My neice now at age of 10 years old, spend hours on youtube, and I am not >> concerned if she is catching bugs, or figuring out that >> the internet is slow, but instead I am concerned that the evil the >> techonology is making to happen to our children, besides the >> evil that it is also doing to us. Technology must be avoided as much as we >> can. The trully malware is not affecting our computers, >> but our minds. >> >> Sent from ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com>, encrypted email based in >> Switzerland. >> >> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children >>> Local Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 12:00 AM >>> UTC Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 03:00 >>> From: ray...@riseup.net >>> To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org> >>> >>> A friend of mine about her four year old: >>> >>> "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was >>> really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering" >>> >>> Rr >>> >> > sdw > >