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Originally Posted by Sregener
Yet. The day will come when the publishers insist that being able to examine the content of hard drives is necessary to enforce their copyright and some lawyer will create a compelling enough case that a technologically-ignorant judge will grant it.
If the government can already examine many aspects of your life without your permission and without a legitimate court order (kangaroo courts need not apply), what makes you think your hard drive is sacred?
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Maybe it's not sacred, but if the above comes true, I'll use an external drive as main mass storage, and set up a firewall rule in my router to keep the computer off-line. It will only be online when updating software, maybe once a month or so. At the moment the computer is updating, the external drive will be turned off or maybe even disconnected. Apart from that, there will be multiple backups.
All online activity will be done through a Linux virtual machine, which will have its own IP on the network. Actually, I'm thinking about starting to do just that.