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data security

reading stories on the clearweb about data theft is depressing. and rarely they are what you expect. they dribble in through channels. sometimes as a feed, sometimes as a link to a personal story.

all have one thing in common:

too little thought and time invested into data security

it starts with identifying what is something of worth. not only bank data and credit cards, implants or hacknodes. your most valuable thing that you can lose is a full identity card. that includes your name, address, bank data, financial information, job information, personal information (family, email, etc), what you own (what's of any worth anyhow, cars, computing devices, real estate, etc), websites you frequently visit (the login data is a big gimmick), what you wear, what you like, who you know, it gets fuzzy...

the common misconception is that this is not valuable. the right broker will sell this info for the monthly income you wish you had. multiple times!

what can you do? it's a modern world after all. and you do leave traces, no matter how futuristic "today" sounds.

first thing you need to do is accept that you have a problem. and that you cannot trust others to keep your data safe without encrption. free things are never free. and trust me, we all have a problem. the megacorps waste countless lives on keeping their goodies safe, us sprawlers have to do this ourselves. most of us don't.

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