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If that is your choice.

You may also understand that your devices are not secure, take steps to reduce risk, and so on.

Why do you think yubikeys are a useful thing? Or hardware crypto wallets?

Devices that reduce risk, that are designed with the thought that connected computers aren't secure, can never be secure.

Know where risk sits.

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I think this discussion mostly comes down to how we interpret the word “secure”. Do we mean “zero risk”, “nothing can go bad”, “no potential attack, ever”?

Or do we mean “low enough risk for this thing , here, now”? I prefer the latter, even if that implies that statements like “this thing is secure” are somewhat useless due to the subjectivity.

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