Ah, gun nut, one of the favorite insults of the anti-rights crowd. Much easier to demean those that disagree with you rather than respond to their points, eh?

Fair enough. So let's examine your "point" and see what we have:

I'll turn in my modern firearm in favor of a musket when you exchange your computer for a printing press.

OK, I've given it some careful thought, and I've decided that for that point, the most appropriate response, the most reasonable response, and the absolute best response is, gun nut logic.

Satisfied?

I'll turn in my modern firearm in favor of a musket when you exchange your computer for a printing press.

Gun nut logic.

Unfortunately we're really big on grand gestures.

Is "executing the mentally ill" one of those grand gestures? What about "electing morons governor"?

Keep in mind that in the 18th century, private citizens owned artillery and warships.

And black people. Which was also their "God-given right" according to the pro-states' rights gamergaters of the 18th century.

I can't connect the dots.

Then I definitely don't want you having a gun.

Hmm, what does that remind me of...

Ubuntu is geared more toward people who don't care much about managing the boot details. So I think it might make sense for them. I chose my distro based on how much control it gave me. And luckily, they still seem committed to OpenRC. When it comes to booting, keep it simple!

This "timeline" is the ultimate privacy nightmare and will be a blight on all those that suffer it.

"Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him"

If you thought your employer seeing your Facebook was bad, that was a little taste compared to what they'd do with this.

Sometimes people forget the importance of Not Being Seen .

I'll need two fossils and the sex tape

And a marriage certificate.

Earlier this week I put in a request for pen-testing a new server I had completed. I think it's secure, but that isn't my area of expertise, so I have the experts kick the shit out of my server to see if anything falls over.

Again, any algo considered secure today may be rendered useless by a discovery tomorrow. That's the nature of cryptography. Time and again we have seen that what we considered "unbreakable" (within reasonable time) offered some side channel attack or an implementation flaw (or worse, as in SSL3, a design flaw that CANNOT be patched) that turned it into a useless waste of computing cycles.

You cannot "promise" that whatever protocol, implementation or procedure you offer will be secure for the next X days/weeks/years with absolute certainty. Hell, given what went down within the last 12 months, anything could blow up tomorrow.

But until it does, it is secure. Security is a bit like a scientific theory. Sound and solid and true and real... until someone comes in and proves it wrong.