It's not that I'm a spy. It's that I want to protect myself digitally as much as possible, despite being forced to interface with the internet by large institutions.
We can go back and time and argue about the lack of security just four decades ago (George Hayduke[1] had a series of books on how to exfiltrate info in the 60's & 70's through social engineering). However, here we are: in a virtual world that is simultaneously more secure and less secure than ever. Compare: we have evolving security protocols that are being hardend every year by attacker's pushing on them, yet our entire lives are open like never before for the picking-off by one clever blackhat.
It is maddening, and I consider myself far more cognizant of the issues than a typical chain-letter sharing, 8-char all-text passwording, facebook user.
We can go back and time and argue about the lack of security just four decades ago (George Hayduke[1] had a series of books on how to exfiltrate info in the 60's & 70's through social engineering). However, here we are: in a virtual world that is simultaneously more secure and less secure than ever. Compare: we have evolving security protocols that are being hardend every year by attacker's pushing on them, yet our entire lives are open like never before for the picking-off by one clever blackhat.
It is maddening, and I consider myself far more cognizant of the issues than a typical chain-letter sharing, 8-char all-text passwording, facebook user.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Screw-Unto-Others-Revenge-Occasions/d...