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by josefresco 4531 days ago
Let's hope your office is secure since your security model relies on preventing physical access.

Your point about focusing too much on the tools when going digital is important. Often I get sucked into some fancy ToDo app for my short lists of personal tasks. Down I go into the rabbit hole of productivity apps and soon enough I realize I should have just scribbled it on a piece of paper and be done with it instead of buying into a whole ecosystem of digital tools to manage tasks that will be thought of, recorded and completed in minutes or hours.

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> Let's hope your office is secure since your security model relies on preventing physical access.

It doesn't have to be physical. I can just store documents on a server that I own and have control over. That still doesn't make it secure because I have to watchout for 0-days and what not. And even then it wouldn't be secure.

But at least I have controllability and observability. I can access and modify them anytime I want to and I also know when someone had unauthorized access to them.

Of course this is not entirely true in Mission Impossible like scenarios. And I'm not saying everyone should do what I do.

But I profundly dislike the superior attitude in articles such as these where the author tells me what to do and asks me why I'm not doing it yet.

Pretty much all security breaks if the attacker has physical access to what he is trying to break into.