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It ships with your operating system, which you physically obtain from another computer (with hardware like a USB drive or via internal network).



But how to trust that this other computer has a good set of CAs?


How can you know your signing software is not backdoored? How can you know you're not living in a computer simulation?


Well, I'm certain my eyes are real so I am certainly not living in a computer simulation.


"If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." -Morpheus, The Matrix

(finally, finally there's a use for that quote!)


How Can Our CA Roots Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/329768040235413504?...




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