the friend can surely find 90% of his lost stuff, but it will take him a lot of time to download it again. Also, if he's like me, he can't remember half of what he had.

Then there's his wife who's screaming at him about the loss of the "home videos" (no honey, they're really gone, they're not at somebody else's computer now)

Yeah, I guess the price of an extra 20TB raid array doesn't seem so high now anymore...

7 out! Line away!

I'll bite. What joke address was it?

I second that. PFSense is rock solid and comes with a lot of features. Dual wan, vpn, you name it.

Just as lazy... also got mine from applianceshop.eu.

Seems to me Mr Hiroshima was given some time. Why not give godaddy and the fbi a call? See if they can set up a trap for the hacker?

And a statue of him right next to lady liberty.

ever had sex with your iPhone?

There's your answer

actually, it will be a great shorting opportunity

They way you put it the relation will be quickly over. From the way the question was put, both parties have something to gain if these documents are sent over, but the OP the most. He doesn't want to push his wish for security up to the point where the deal is blown off. Pick your battles carefully, that kind of stuff.

As others have pointed out, once the documents are decrypted, there's no telling what happens to them. There's nobody stopping them from sending a copy directly to the NSA for convenience. But in this case, he trusts the organization to do the right thing. Then a once-off practical security measure is simplest: encrypt the document with a password, tell the password in a separate conversation. Once he gets to the point where he has to send another document every day, something like pgp might be in order. But by that time he is talking to other people besides the secretary and it will be a lot easier.

best advise I've seen here.

Of course nut jobs, communists, professional agitators want to be free as well.

Freedom would imply the liberty to ignore these people. We're it becomes dangerous is when people say that it would also imply the liberty to beat them up, or even kill them. A moral compass would prevent this, but not everybody can be trusted to have a moral compass. There comes the choice: should there be a distinction between people with and without a moral compass - is there a need for a government that locks "bad" people up? I think so, but as soon as you give the rights to do so to a government, it will expand its authority. This means putting more people in jail for questionable actions. It will invent laws that first slightly bend, then outright contradict what was its goal. It will start spying on the people it says it wants to protect.

As long as people disagree with each other, they will team up with other people that agree with them. That is called a government and the purpose of that government is to oppress the ones that don't agree with it. After a while, nobody is being served by that government anymore.

Mark.

where is that $1000 bitcoin troll at now?

he's buying.

the fastest way to mine bitcoins is to use asics. Small boxes that are usb powered. Once these become available in bulk it will make gpu mining obsolete. Using cpus is already not cost effective.

Those insured deposits are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government

hahaha!!