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I really don't mean to be obnoxious, but those are some bold statements. Can you back them up with evidence?

Having several dedicated accounts is a wise approach. However, I doubt many people are doing the same, because of the effort required. Opsec is really, really hard. All you have to make is one mistake, and you are done. But, I guess having several accounts at least limits the damage.

Why is everyone ignoring the argument that Truecrypt and Veracrypt don't require a TPM to very securely encrypt a hard drive; therefore, TPM's are not even necessary to prevent a laptop thief from having access to corporate data or a company's internal network? If a securely-encrypted hard drive can be accomplished without a TPM (in or outside the CPU), why is a TPM in the CPU desirable? It seems to provide no real improvement in security will providing enormous potential for abuse. The only scenario that I can envision is that an employee simply refuses to encrypt his hard drive, even after he has been threatened with being fired if he does not. Does this happen often enough to justify the potential for abuse that a TPM inside the CPU affords--and in fact, assured abuse in countries like North Korea. By the way, I read today the Dell and Intel had decided not to use Pluton. How do you explain that if Pluton is so necessary.

You could not buy a decent chemistry set for your child in the 1970's and 1980's and supervise him. That is the point.

The article doesn't say the government is the reason children could not have decent chemistry sets in the 1970's and '80's. That's the straw-man argument. However, I can't prove that fear of the government, due to what could be seen as an anti-government article, is the reason Hacker News pulled the post from the feed. I really don't know.

So you are saying that because one kid in a million wins a Darwin award using a chemistry set, the other 999,999 can't have one?

I've survived the front page of Hacker News more than once with an uplink speed that averages only 0.75 Mbps. You just have to know how to do it.