For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (2007)

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I'v had a box compromised via a web browser twice.

First time was the nimbda worm in september 2001 which exploited a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.

Second time was due to an out of date java runtime, probably around 2008. It was a virtual machine that I was using for some testing. The malware spewed email spam for a short time until I noticed.

I consider it to be a good idea to use separate devices for work and casual web browsing.

I've dreamed about putting a system like archive.is between my web browser and the world.

Do it! Set up archivebox

Thanks, did not know that one and looks great.

I have too. I suppose that one could set up a headless chrome instance for that.

Check out

https://archivebox.io/

as mentioned in the cousin post.

Probably an unpopular opinion but I liked the web better back when it was predominantly static (for the client) HTML with minimal/no imteractivity. It was more secure and it ran better even though we had slower connections and slower computers.

I prefer browsing in a disposable (self-destructing) VM on Qubes OS, relying on hardware virtualization.

> Theo de Raadt, now there's a paranoid man

Can someone elaborate what makes de Raadt so paranoid?

Yeah he doesn't seem paranoid at all, just very aware of what holes the tech stack has.

In fact, some people have argued that de Raadt (and the OpenBSD team) are not paranoid _enough_:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E9ga-CylWQ

"36C3 - A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations"

Let’s just say, people call it OpenOCD. Of course this “obsession” has produced one of the worlds most secure OS’s.

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