2015-10-04 5:36 GMT+02:00 grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com>:

   Perfection is "hard", and must be a "lifestyle" of minimization
   and excercises and engineering, both in real life and in the mind.

   But this is exactly the problem!
   Most people are not at (info)war. Most people are trying to live
   another kind of lifestyle entirely, and see not how invisible orgs can
   abuse them. All that care about infosec can only say "stop having fun,
   stop using features, start putting effort into something that you can
   hardly even imagine".
   I think the best "for the public" angle is sovereignty, control and
   actionable freedom. Politicians whose internal memo's and private lives
   are not secure will function much worse; even when not blackmailed
   their adversaries have a strong upper hand - affecting sovereignty. The
   same applies to companies.
   Control over your life and how you behave, no silly timewasting DRM, no
   involuntary updates or changes, no "accept all" or misleading "opt-in",
   no aggressive tie-in strategies, options other than
   voting-with-your-feet/wallet.
   And wrt actionable freedom - privacy isn't just for nefarious business,
   it's also just for keeping people out of your hair. If you like long
   showers you might prefer not tweeting it, lest your eco-buddies will
   look at you with little frowns. Maybe you really dig that groovy
   lavalamp - doesn't mean everyone should know it. And perhaps you'd
   rather not scribble your teen-girl-pop-rock-addiction? Best not speak
   of heavy subjects - people prefer lightweight, fun, enthusiastic,
   positive talks.
   In that vein, I have determined Android smartphones to be something I
   do want to have. It has been getting worse and worse for years on end.
   iOS is worse still, but now seemingly only marginally so. Having just
   lost my personal pictures (which are really not that useful for anyone
   but me) is painful, and I wish I just accepted the cloud backup
   feature. I did not see why it should not be encrypted locally, but the
   applications for doing so manually did not inspire trust, and seemed
   like a big hassle besides (was still gonna). Basically, I recommend
   using automatic cloud backups for images, and remembering that
   GOOG/TLA's are watching (which they are anyway, on your Android
   smartphone).

     How hard is it really to, upon boot of a physical local storage
     server,
     to remember to concatenate 12'th line of the 12'th page of the first
     12 books on your bookshelf?
     Or to at least write the fucker down so that phrase remains
     airgapped (though obviously final key still present in core)?

   I'd first need a stable bookshelf. Housing has been in flux somewhat -
   for a while now. I may have written something down. Somewhere. Also, I
   thought I would remember, and did, until I did not use the password for
   some months (it was running smoothly and needed no reboots). So, harder
   than it seemed. I have also used grids and patterns to hide passwords,
   so not every onlooker would immediately see them - but it's possible to
   brute force them so there's no real comfort.
   Sorry for always being so verbose. Brevity kills clarity.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com