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~ you are not secure unless you audit each os boot |
To really ensure your system is secure, you'd have to audit every single line of source code on your computer that runs your OS, and compile it each time you start your computer, including auditing the compiler itself.
i.e. auditing the source code is a form of security, as you can view the code and check for security issues, but there is so much source code and so little time to audit it, that virtually security is a big joke.
There are some short cuts to save time: just audit the source code only when you first install the OS, then forget about it. But what if someone hacked your exe/elf/a.out binary files and you don't know it? Do you do a DIFF compare on each binary to ensure it was the same one that was originally installed, each time you boot your computer? How do you know the DIFF compare tool is not lying to you because someone hacked that?
Security can drive a person mentally ill, because a super secure system is basically impossible. The human skull (brain) is not capable of auditing everything, every few seconds. Not only do you have to audit your entire operating system and all programs every time you boot up, you pretty much have to do it every 10 seconds too, because you don't know if someone hacked in via tcp/ip.
So another security method is just to stay disconnected from the internet. Disable tcp/ip. But, how do you know someone does not have a hidden wifi chip soldered in to your computer that allows a wifi connection at all times, hidden from your site, that could even run its own hidden OS and fuck with your internet connection? Did you audit your laptop/desktop computer (hardware audit) each time you came home and used your computer? Doing this would be impossible, like checking for hidden microphones in your walls every time you come home from shopping or taking the retarded (prefer super intelligent) girlfriend for a walk in the valley.
Who in their fucks mind stops and audits their computer visually each time they use it? Literally, someone could have soldered a special chip into your computer or a capacitor, that acts as a WIFI receiver/sender, while you were out somewhere in society and you left your computer at home.
For the super conscious super secure programmer or computer user who's super intelligent about this stuff: security is a fucking joke. Anything can be hacked, more than you even thought possible. Your foot, or knee, could have a chip in it that you did not know was put there, because when that chip implant was put there you were 1 month old and cannot remember your baby years. Your car is not open source? It can be hacked.. you did not audit the car when you bought it, and even if it is open sourced your car or truck could be later hacked at any time without you auditing it each time you drive.
Security is a waste of time because it's impossible to check everything, and it is better to just get on with life. Make no mistake, I wish security were possible and true, I really do. I've always been an advocate of security, but it makes you mentally ill just thinking about all the security vulnerabilities. You can add many defenses and make your system much less hard to get into, but then someone can just socially engineer you and grab your password. Your fucking girlfriend could be an insider that's not actually your girlfriend, but just posing as your girlfriend to get all your laptop passwords... Your best friend, could be a fat homosexual gay rapist voyeur who likes to fuck transgenders in the asshole, and peer into your file system, posing as a straight football loving macho tough guy.
Basically anything can be hacked. I love security, if only it were possible to make something secure - which I do dearly wish. It's just that humans are morons, and some voyeuristic hacker faggot will always find a way to fuck your data, or fuck with you. The human brain does simply not have time to audit everything involved, each second your computer is running. Security is impossible. I do not wish this to be the case... let me be sincere about this... I do wish security was really possible and really do advocate security, I just don't think that smart people can possibly even begin to make things secure.
It's not pointless, it's a good pipe dream to have to think we have security, and it's a good aim. It's just that some fucking idiot will violate security.. there will always be that idiot.
So what do you do? Just give up and leave everything open? Open source code and and open source universe? I wish that people had trust and respect, then we really could live in an open society where you could literally leave the keys to your $25,900 car on a public bus seat, walk away from it for 7 days, then come back and someone says "hey man you dropped your keys, here they are..." .."- thanks bud". Something like a universe composed of "utorrent" like people who just share/trust each other's data.
But fuck this universe, that's not the one we are living in. Security is just climbing up Mount Everest naked. You try and try to reach the top of Mount Everest, but you are naked and you really don't stand a chance. I do wish security was possible and I wish it was not like climbing mount Everest Naked. I advocate security. But you are living in a universe of untrustworthy idiots that find ways in to systems, causing security to be this big fucking joke, that I really don't want to be a joke.
For all you know someone could simply hack into a system using quantum mechanics you aren't aware of, even if you are not even connected to the internet. Security is scary, and causes you to be extremely paranoid to the mentally ill state of just wanting to give up. But it's not mentally ill, if its true... All the other people are mentally ill if they think that using their little linux box is "Secure because linux doesn't get viruses"... or some horse shit like that.
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