Simplifying, beautifying, and streamlining our lives leads to significant security risk. For most of us, having pictures come up automatically when browsing the Web is standard.
Getting e-mail in HTML format is normal, and setting our phones to automatically sync up with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is natural. After all, these are technical innovations that allow our electronic lives to be beautified and streamlined so we’d be crazy not to use them. Stop making it so easy to be attacked online – Computerworld Blogs
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