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by kube-system 1487 days ago
And then you also need to audit all of the code yourself. Unless again, you want to trust someone else to do it. And then do the same with your OS and all of your hardware.

Computing without trusting others is damn near impossible.

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Even when you get to the point of fabbing your own chips, how do you know your layout software isn't compromised? How do you know your pattern etcher isn't compromised? Are you inspecting the microscope and validating the billions of connections?

The only way to properly secure your web mail is to etch your own silicon by hand. Everything else is just useless security theater obviously.