W work to have what we need not
usually have the luxury to work at what we love to do and make a living. Without
money we can’t have a home or food to eat. We all must work. In return we
request a bit of privacy in what we do and who we like to be with off the job. Now
technology has taken that away from us too now. A lot of our lives are
interconnected through the internet now these days. There is a global empire
full of devices and machines. We have
auto navigation systems, smart TV’s, thermostats in homes, security systems,
telephone networks and on line banking much of which operate for us with a
series of passwords from us. Now almost anything you can imagine is linked to
the World Wide Web.
The emperor of it all is our
smart phone. Now everything you say or do can be looked at and listened to by some hacker. Your phone
even off can be hacked into and someone somewhere is looking at you while you
think you have a dark screen off. As long as you have a camera phone and some
passwords for something, you got no privacy. Without your personal comfort why do anything
at all? We labor loyally at our jobs so that we could enjoy the comfort of
family, friends and all our junk we buy. Some of the world’s best hackers are
in Germany. Many hackers have doctorate degrees
in Computer Engineering by day they work for places like Security Research Labs
doing security for Fortune 500 companies but at night these same people are
listening to our conversations and looking into all our banking or any
information on us that we once thought was our privacy.
Our smart phones, sim cards and
USB sticks are all looked at every day. They
say they are trying to finc volunerabilities before the bad guys do. What about
me the victim? Shouldn’t I get to know something? Why bother to get upset. Most
of us lead boring lives working laborousely on Labor Day and have no money for
someone to steal anyway. Fine, go look at my bank account and see how many
times I have been charged for overdraft fees. I don’t have time to make
deposits I have a crappy job that makes me work on Labor Day. Banks are closed
on Labor Day!
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