[Ham-Computers] Secure E-mail Services?

Thu May 14 16:16:06 EDT 2009

Hello Kurt,

There are only three 'known to work' methods by which a home personal 
computer can be made "secure".

1. Destroy the computer system. Giving special attention to total 
destruction of the hard drive and all other internal read/write drives. If 
said "drive" uses a removable disc, such as a 3.5 inch 1.44 Meg floppy, 
singal or multiple Zip Drive disc and so forth. With the computer gone, or 
at least reduced to bits of bytes in a workshop junk drawer, and storage 
media like a hard drive, floppy disc, CD etc. melted down to landfill refuse 
with a half life of five million years, you are safe.

2. Very simple. Get OFF the Internet and stay off! People can not hack in if 
there is no connection to the Internet, by landline or wireless modom!

3. W8DBF's Law says: If you make your personal, private or otherwise 
classified and/or valuable data available to anyone capable of using a so 
called "mouse", connect said computer to the Internet, you will quickly 
learn that there is absolutely no such thing as "security", "privacy" or 
"lock on your life!"

For every computer security system or every hardware protection device that 
can offer you the tempting hint of "being safe", two new ways to render it 
ineffective appear within moments of conception!

Save money, maybe your mental and physical health too. Avoid the Internet! 
Get an electronic typewriter, type the letter, type the envelope address and 
put a stamp on it! You know, believe it or not, we actually survived doing 
this in the past twenty years. Know what else? The postal rates seldom 
creased! I happen to have QSL cards from 1960 forward, some letters mailed 
at the first class rate etc. This progress is costing us more and working 
worse!

Simply put, if you connect to the Internet, welcome to the world of Hacker 
Haven!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
To: <doc at kd4e.com>; "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, 
communications,or experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Secure E-mail Services?

>: It seems to me that the monitoring services of our increasingly
> : Orwellian Homeland Security Dept. would flag all of that mail
> : for special attention and that it is likely a trivial matter
> : for them to decode it.
>
> Did anyone else notice that within days after 911, the TV became flooded
> with free online PC virus scans and slow-down fixes???
>
> Someday I'll have to tell everyone how the "10" numbers, later changed to
> "10-10" to change your phone rates and carriers were made public.
>
> Kurt
>
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