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Comment by coralreef

Using a consumer pc, risk wouldn't come from hardware hack implementations, it would be mostly software.

To continue with your example, "display sniffing" could be done by infecting trusted software or software presented as trustworthy (fake or infected Zoom binaries, Xcode binaries, etc.) or injected through open source dependencies like npm packages.

Yes, you or I might be paranoid enough to check the checksum hash to make sure the open source code matches the build. But every time, for everything?

The less connected it is, the safer. The less software it runs, the safer.

parent coralreef 18 days ago

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