How safe is your online data? Read this and see how even an expert was hacked. A very honest and frightening article by someone determined to expose a huge problem which is perhaps under reported as most of us hope it will never happen to us, the writer has shown great moral courage in sharing his experience here.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/
This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour,” says Wired senior writer Mat Honan.
Photo: Ethan Hill
Wired (stylized as WIRED) is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_%28magazine%29
This is posted for educational purposes and as a possible topic for Theory of Knowledge students in essays or oral presentations. Source of article on link above. No copyright infringement intended. Students and readers are encouraged to click on the link to the original article which I found on the BBC website, so I assume that it is in the public domain.
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