Spyware: the uncomfortable truth about VPNs
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Online security and encryption is a minefield. Our data is always safe until it isn't. All these companies assure us our data is safe until a breach occurs. Banks are the worry, back in the day we had a passbook, receipts, printed statements; nowadays we have effectively nothing.
Just think about it, if some cyber breach, blamed on China, Russia etc, were to occur and your credit balance disappears how would you prove what you had in the bank?
When one realises that the interest rate on the UK's debt is almost twice what we spend on military, the mind boggles, military buy fighter jets, bombers, war ships. missiles, tanks yet the interest on our debt is more.
And what are politicians desperately trying to do? Reduce interest rates so that borrowing can become easier.
Online is perhaps our biggest threat, we trust that https is secure, we trust the little padlock, how can we check it is secure? One can check the padlock then view the certificate, that looks very official but what does it actually tell us? Merely that someone else has told us it is encrypted.
Don't trust any of them.
Geffers
Just think about it, if some cyber breach, blamed on China, Russia etc, were to occur and your credit balance disappears how would you prove what you had in the bank?
When one realises that the interest rate on the UK's debt is almost twice what we spend on military, the mind boggles, military buy fighter jets, bombers, war ships. missiles, tanks yet the interest on our debt is more.
And what are politicians desperately trying to do? Reduce interest rates so that borrowing can become easier.
Online is perhaps our biggest threat, we trust that https is secure, we trust the little padlock, how can we check it is secure? One can check the padlock then view the certificate, that looks very official but what does it actually tell us? Merely that someone else has told us it is encrypted.
Don't trust any of them.
Geffers
