People Do Want to Steal Your Data

          In the past decade our society has rocketed into a whole new world thanks to wireless communication. With the proliferation of smartphones and high speed cellular data, you are never more than a few taps from anywhere or anyone. We live online, maybe not in the literal sense, but rather everything we post is there for everyone to see unless we take the right precautions. And even if we do take those steps necessary to protect ourselves from the perils of the internet, there always is the chance you will be the victim of the next iCloud brute force hacking attempt.

          I'm sure you all heard of the massive iCloud security breach that led to dozens of notable people's personal information and media being distributed throughout online forums such as Reddit and 4Chan. Apple is claiming that there was no fault on their end, but rather the perpetrator(s) used brute force password guessing along with correctly answering account security questions. The two step verification method they suggest using is a smart idea, but the truth is that many of us are just too lazy or simply don't care.

          I believe that is where the real problem lies. No body wants their digital information to be compromised, but at the same time people have the "it won't happen to me" mentality. It can certainly happen to you, and if you are particularly careless there is a good chance that it will. The best solution is simply not to keep anything in digital form that you don't want disseminated throughout the internet faster than you can say Insta-famous, but barring that there are some other solutions.

          1Password is a powerful tool that I have used for a while that helps me keep my passwords cryptic and, for the most part, un-guessable while helping allowing me to maintain my sanity by not having to remember them.

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          Moving past physically securing your data to keep ourselves safe, I think educating people of the ramifications of being careless with their online persona is important. I can't even imagine where technology will be 10 years from now, but I am willing to bet it will play an even larger role in our everyday life. So, protect yourselves because someone out there does want to steal your data!

--Scott