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I guess I just take it for granted but I would think that a YubiKey like system, and a separate phone for work that is fairly clean of other apps would be the SoP for most serious journalists. At the same time I guess I shouldn't be surprised it isn't.



This article felt like a pretty normal guy talking about how he's sort of thinking about how computers are creepy.

I personally have been playing with U2F hosted on my home network and integrating it throughout my life. It's not that hard and definitely worth it when you get it going. I have been working with some YubiKeys to secure my house and my girlfriend and I's internet accounts. Recently I got a couple Solo[0] Keys. Really excited about open hardware that's not platform locked. You can seed your keys yourself and give one a massive offset then say put it in a bank box, if you lose your keys or are compromised, get key from bank and seed a new set. The Yubi and google U2F offerings are cool, but they are definitely designed to lock you in to their tooling. Buying into a single point of failure for this feels dumb.

[0] https://www.solokeys.com


Yeah I haven't gotten far into the key stuff myself. Thanks for the tip as far as rolling your own goes.


>...a separate phone for work that is fairly clean of other apps would be the SoP for most serious journalists.

I would think having no phone would be far better than a separate phone. For example, pinging is a way that any adversary can use to determine your precise location.




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