This seemed straightforward to me: if you are serious about security, most consumer electronics are not going to be secure enough for your purposes. Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.
Two issues. First, are you serious about security? Should you be? What is the bad outcome you’re trying to protect yourself from? It’s possible that OP has good reasons to want security, but it’s also possible that they are paranoid. Note, OP didn’t say “if”. Presumably they think that everyone always needs security.
Second, what is better than a computer? Surely not paper. Don’t post your secrets to facebook in plain text. Anything smarter than that is probably going to work fine for you.
The point is well taken, but I disagree with your default position. It is important to at least understand enough about security to make an informed choice—if you don’t have any methods available, by the time you know you need them it will be irrevocably too late. Some common activities in this community which have strong security implications:
Running a start-up
Running a website
Intellectual property
The don’t-post-everything-on-Facebook heuristic is not satisfactory in any of those cases.
The “Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.” heuristic is pretty impractical for any of your three cases too tho.
This seemed straightforward to me: if you are serious about security, most consumer electronics are not going to be secure enough for your purposes. Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.
Two issues. First, are you serious about security? Should you be? What is the bad outcome you’re trying to protect yourself from? It’s possible that OP has good reasons to want security, but it’s also possible that they are paranoid. Note, OP didn’t say “if”. Presumably they think that everyone always needs security.
Second, what is better than a computer? Surely not paper. Don’t post your secrets to facebook in plain text. Anything smarter than that is probably going to work fine for you.
The point is well taken, but I disagree with your default position. It is important to at least understand enough about security to make an informed choice—if you don’t have any methods available, by the time you know you need them it will be irrevocably too late. Some common activities in this community which have strong security implications:
Running a start-up
Running a website
Intellectual property
The don’t-post-everything-on-Facebook heuristic is not satisfactory in any of those cases.
The “Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.” heuristic is pretty impractical for any of your three cases too tho.