It'will be interesting to see whether websites of some particular political party or lobbying group get downranked so much to disappear from search results completely.

Well, or it can go to the other direction, like Pinky and the Brain.

I thought USB Mass storage wasn't supported until Windows 9x/ME. Unless you manage to pull off booting linux or something from floppy.
My suggestion would be PCMCIA CDROM (you did mention PCMCIA floppy drive, I would suppose that should work too) to boot linux/FreeBSD off from and see what you can do from there.

The problem with many-eyes hypothesis is that not everyone looks for the security bugs and not everyone is capable of looking for every kind of bug. Everyone will notice a problem when the UI behaves differently. Not many of us will notice when the command-line utility did something subtly different (especially when it comes to RNG, like the Debian OpenSSL bug back in 2008) without abnormal output.

Actually use a different OS for each of your computer. Stuff that can infect your box regardless which OS you are on pretty much means you are screwed either way. Like investing, diversifying would be a better strategy as the scope of the damage is more limited than homogeneous system/networks.

It's not like all the president has no bad news. Every last one of them got some dirt on their representative work.

If you need privacy, you don't buy a phone. Do all your talking in person. Actually, do everything in person.

You might be assuming they don't have/cannot create new paths/shortcuts.

but then again, if they can make or have shortcutsthere is no way we can see them coming.

Time to ditch the dark side (windows).

I wonder why nobody come up with an algorithm generator to spam software patents already. Seems like the goal is the wording and not the substance all along.

Libreoffice has flat formats that are text-editable (xml ish), suitable for version control to some extent. So git is ok but you need to switch the entire system in order to use git. That being said, if the changes are required to be tracked like that then yes it will be a better solution.

I wonder why nobody thought of forking the steam client on github to include TLS in steam chat.

John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:

Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

Face it, it explains everything.

And possibly the control group that shocks in some other manner.

Now they are selling API access too. Just keep squeezing money out of every possible niches.