well, since you involve your family in your overkilling security practices maybe you are really paranoid, expecially if while reading you're taking offence from my comment (I say this because I'm myself a little really paranoid, so I know how it feels ;)
Anyway there's one thing you don't say in the article which I think is needed to judge where the security expert ends and start the psychopath, are you taking fun from your job ?
I myself shred papers wich doesn't really needs to be shredded, have t[w|o]o firewalls, encrypted connection between client and servers on a lan which isn't really connected to the internet, a network wich phones me if a new mac address is found (well this isn't too paranoid) and hate apple because they print the macaddress on the box of the g5 (well, this really sucks), but that's because it's fun !
As long as it doesn't stress me, it's fun to work as I'm protecting my secret plans for world domination from the f b i, and it keeps my mind ready for the worst, which I know will be always less dramatic than a new cpu secretely deployed wich can decrypt a 50 letters passphrase in 5 sec, but that give me an advantage on the readiness for reaction.

Having a 50 words passphrase is fun (I can think of the faces of people seeing you typing a 50 letters phrase to login !), thinking that evil forces are secretly deploying megaterahertzcpus is paranoia.

(btw, now they know your laptop requires such a short novel to login I hope you have an encrypted fs and a little charge of thermite which detonate if they try to open it to pull off the hard disk)

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