* All these Tech types are liberals and can't stand us.
* Worse they build all this crap in China.
* I won't buy one period.
Now look at all the players who are Obamatons.
Google, Facebook, Apple ( Jobs in particular, nasty liberal he was) and even Gates.
Don't use their Crap Period...
Maybe it is time for us to go Ludite and stay with our PC's and go Unix or whatever...
Maybe it is time for Rush to step away from the Apple Crack-Pipe.
I have no simpathy for him on this, how are they not gonna bust his stones and the rest of us from now to Nov ?
That wasn't true 10-12 years ago. A big proportion of early adopters were pretty conservative. Remember how Net polls used to tilt conservative consistently? DU was insignificant back then, ditto Kos.
The liberal thing is the RatRoots smooth move, driven by Rahm and Ex-Lax.
Use vintage hardware for key data storage. Before 1990 or so most everything was made here by relatively politically unaligned and disinterested small companies. dBase is still perfectly capable of meeting the data needs of an average person or small-to-medium sized organization. WordStar can handle documents. It goes without saying that your dino computer should not be networked. Sneakernet any data that you need to share on easily-destructable thumb drives.
Use burn phones. Use 'em and lose 'em often. Smart phones have multiple layers of hidden and non-configurable features in addition to the various cameras and microphones and transmitters that you know about: they are right out. Feature phones are nearly as bad. Most mobile phones are GPS-enabled and transmit your location continuously even if you opt out.
Avoid fancy widgetry in any area requiring OPSEC. Smartphones, tablets and anything that transmits consantly (like Bluetooth devices) are right out. Remember, almost everything has a camera and a microphone these days, including many TVs and almost all monitors. Medical devices need scrutiny, too. My hearing aids transmit everything that I hear via Bluetooth. High OPSEC means they come out and turn off. A lot of the newer devices are GPS-enabled and 4G enabled. My wife brought my attention to an insulin pump that maintains a real-time data stream, ostensibly with your doctor. It would be easy to piggyback a microphone in the device. Or send an "inject 10 cc" kill command. We are on the cusp of some real James Bond stuff. Be aware!
Avoid wi-fi devices and routers in high OPSEC areas, ans secure the crap out of them anywhere else. Run the strongest protocol that the router will support and use mad passwords. Also, whitelist only the MAC addresses of your hardware and block everything else. This advice goes double for mobile hotspots. It's not foolproof (which is why you keep wi-fi out of critical areas), but it will keep out most garden-variety snoops.
Invest in a big-ass magnet and a big-ass hammer to dispose of thumb drives, phones and other data-imbued widgets. Yes, I KNOW they can still recover data off of flashed-and-smashed gadgets...but it is both difficult and expensive.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to tech OPSEC. It isn't enough to stop a hardcore operation but if someone can easily mess with you, they may do so with little pretext. If you make it difficult and expensive to monitor you, many would-be spies will be discouraged.