Camera mounting

[lee]

Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10 July 2014 09:49, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> On 10 July 2014 01:10, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You trust computers too much.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, I'm pragmatic in what can be trusted. If key components of your
>>> system are compromised then what are you protecting and what are you
>>> protecting from? Misdirected paranoia is pointless.
>>
>> A computer doesn't need to be compromised to not work correctly or not
>> as expected.
>>
>
> The same can be said of manually mounting things every time.

As in "A human doesn't need to be compromised ..."? :)

> The difference is that computers are good at automating things
> reliably, people are not. I don't calculate all my hashes by hand
> either.

The kind of reliability you're referring to is like a two-edged sword.
Computers are subject to all kinds of failures, plus human errors, and
they lack human intelligence.  That puts computers at a big
disadvantage, and when a computer does something wrong, it's somewhat
likely to be doing it wrong all the time.


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