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Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:
> What makes you think that it isn't 100% secure?

That's simple: nothing is 100 % secure.

> First: Drop all proprietary products, including their protocols. For
> example, use IRC or some other free standard protocol for live
> conversations, instead of MSN. You can encrypt everything in IRC as
> well as in MSN, and there are ways to guarantee authenticity. Use GnuPG
> instead of PGP, because PGP is constantly losing trustfulness, and it's
> not free. GnuPG is a free alternative.

Where is the sense in that? If you use encryption properly it doesn't matter
which protocol you use to transmit your data. Changing the protocol would
just mean a lot of work. Where is the problem in MSN anyway? Just because
it was developed by Microsoft it doesn't mean it is bad.

> Next, don't do things you don't understand.

That's always a good thing :)

> To the threats on the internet, look that you have recent software
> versions, so they don't possibly have some ancient security problem.
> Keep your system up to date. That doesn't include the kernel, unless
> some security problem is found, which affects you. You might also be
> interested in various kernel patches. I use the 'grsecurity' patch.

That's right, but if really want to secure your system that won't be enough.
Bare in mind that security is a process and not a state that you can
achieve. You always have to analyse your system and think about steps to
further improve its security. Updates can only be one of those steps.

Further steps to improve security could be:
- - data backups
- - not to safe data on the computer but on a CD and cut off the internet
connection while working with them.
- - configure a firewall
- - put a NAT-Router between your system and the internet to hide your PC to
the outside world.
- - ...
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