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Reasons to Be Computer Distrustful or Live in Terrible Fear
Computers are wonderful, except when they’re not, and you fail to follow a set of rigid rules you must abide by that you set up for yourself.
Calculations tell us that in 2021 there were about 2.4 BILLION computers in use worldwide. No one needs to tell us that among those billions of units, there were equally large numbers of hackers (the black hat ones), scammers, social engineers, and plain bad guys/gals who were out to get us.
Most of those people with bad or evil intentions knew how to hit our backdoors, slip a bit of code into a photo we downloaded, or steal us blind while we were watching a film on our screens. They were writing not simply code to get us, they were writing emails that duplicated the letterheads and graphics of firms you deal with all the time.
Think of PayPal, any bank, credit cards, online shops, stock accounts, tax returns, mortgage information, everything you thought was safe. Many of these emails will have “warnings” about your data being compromised, and they want to help you fix it. And where were you keeping all that “safely stored” material? Oh, right, on your laptop or desktop’s hard drive.
Wake-up time has come because there’s big business in stolen information, be it credit or any other kind of personal info that will have value…
