[Elecraft] account suspension

[Alan Bloom]

I try not to post about off-topic items, but I can't resist.

There's probably nothing you can do to absolutely protect any computer 
that is connected to the Internet.  Someday you *WILL* click on some 
attachment or there will be an operating system bug that doesn't get 
caught and corrected in time to save you.

So what I do is have two computers.  The Windows 7 machine with all my 
important stuff has no connection to the Internet or to any other 
computer or device that is connected to the Internet.  Sitting next to 
it is a Linux computer connected to the Internet.  If the Win7 computer 
needs to download some file from a web site it is transferred with a 
thumb drive from the Linux machine.

Of course, even that is not 100.0% foolproof because there could be a 
virus in a file on the thumb drive, but it is way, way safer.

Alan N1AL


On 03/07/2017 01:31 PM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
 > Sometimes, being paranoid (or OCD) isn't enough.  After a friend's
 > system was ransomed, I chose the most paranoid path I could afford:
 >