[ExI] Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:56:05AM +1200, Andrew Mckee wrote:

> >But remember to keep your main computer disconnected from the internet
> >and nothing of value on the Raspberry Pi (non-Windows) that you use on
> >the internet.

You could use an amnesiac distro like Tails. Or virtualize your system,
if it supports VT-d/IOMMU, so that you can compartmentalize your
secrets without hardware redundancy (but hardware redundancy is
always a good idea, anyway).
 
> Thats kinda what I do anyway, but that approach really doesn't help much 
> if you want to play the latest internet activated game, or your job requires 
> you to upgrade(?) to Adobe's latest creative cloud offering.

Always mount a scratch monkey.