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I find it somewhat amazing that a few months ago, I'd have read an article like this and thought "Man, talk about paranoid."

But today, after all that I've read and learned recently, it makes perfect sense.

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I read a comment just like this a couple of months ago. Someone saying that until this point they thought Richard Stallman was a complete paranoid nutjob but it turns out he was completely correct. I guess that's why he will be seen as a visionary in so many areas.

And speaking of stallman and airgaps: http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

While I admire his dedication to free software and security, I find it sad that he who has done so much for the internet and modern computing eschews most of it.

You could have said something similar about Dijkstra, who most of his life didn't even use a computer.

Ihad a formal methods lecturer who insists that no computer scientist should be allowed to use a computer until they are 40

Yes but most of his life was lived before personal computing was really a thing.

This is for personal reasons.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsi...

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