At a recent party someone asked about my approach towards - in my words - safe computing given the computer hacking and privacy loss that are in the news every day. Safe computing is a way of using a computer that probably will not subject the computer user to loss of data, unexpected loss of privacy or loss of the computer for its intended use for too long or at too great of a monetary expense. There are degrees of Safe computing made by tradeoffs between a computer's convenience or usefulness and the data loss risk, privacy and ease of repair.