With a good critical thinking base, it is fairly easy to avoid the
   'evil' of technology and technology-enabled communications while
   benefiting greatly from broad knowledge, understanding, and, ideally,
   beneficial connections.  If you are limited to or you choose the path
   of ignorance, you may fall for anything.
   Good critical thinking capability, along with a good awareness of
   scams, cognitive bias mistake patterns, and risk analysis, is a
   multi-layered defense-in-depth system, with the penultimate safety of a
   cognitive-enabled application level firewall.  Lesser mental
   architectures try to stop everything with a port-based firewalls or
   anti-virus, but they're wide open to easily constructed phishing and
   zero-day attack.  Openness to memetic infection is like allowing anyone
   to run code as root at the host level rather than in a throwaway Docker
   container.  The opposite problem is being so afraid of being taken
   again that you won't incorporate anything new because you don't trust
   that you can discriminate.  That's a lot like refusing to update your
   software for fear of exploit but leaving yourself open to now-known
   bugs and gaps that have been fixed.  Or you simply are used to your
   current pattern and dislike change; to be safe, you may reject most
   input.
   I left home at 15 and taught myself programming etc., so I have a bias
   toward self-sufficiency:  I didn't believe in sheltering my children
   except at the extremes; they are thoroughly resistant to memetic
   infection.
   sdw
   On 9/6/16 10:55 AM, Peressim wrote:

   My neice now at age of 10 years old, spend hours on youtube, and I am
   not concerned if she is catching bugs, or figuring out that the
   internet is slow, but instead I am concerned that the evil the
   techonology is making to happen to our children, besides the evil that
   it is also doing to us. Technology must be avoided as much as we can.
   The trully malware is not affecting our computers, but our minds.

   Sent from [1]ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.

   -------- Original Message --------

   Subject: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican
   children

   Local Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 12:00 AM

   UTC Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 03:00

   From: [2]rayzer@riseup.net

   To: cypherpunks [3]<cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org>

   A friend of mine about her four year old:

   "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was

   really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering"

   Rr

   sdw

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