I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
From John McAfee
We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.
Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.
These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.
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