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I find a street thug. I tell him to go after you. I tell him he can keep the wallet, the watch, the smart phone, w/e.
I say, I just want the key chain.
Then I find a 13 year old Japanese kid with a super computer, to crack your Excel password.
This is all after I have a hacker kid, use bots to search everything you type on the internet, so I can tell the street kid where to find you.
Yes... it's far fetched. But here's the kicker. Everywhere we go on the internet, we leave tracks.
We get in a conversation with someone we trust on the internet, and say something like...
Yeah, I know that cafe... I was there last Tuesday.
With bots these days, people can find a lot of information about us, while they're not even at the computer.
To be honest... the captchas on websites to stop a bot, wouldn't even stop a... toaster.
As long as a bot isn't trying to hack a specific website... as long as it doesn't cause problems for the sites owner...we ignore them.
I don't know any English folk lore, so I'll use some American versions...
I mean would Daniel Boone get on the internet and tell the bad guys where he kept his bowie knife... heck no!
All I'm trying to say is that no matter how well thought out... the best policy is... just don't talk about it.
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Just as a teeny example. I remember when they first came out with 256 bit encryption. Big announcement about how secure that would make things.
A few weeks later I read an article about how a 13 year old Japanese kid, cracked it in so many , hours, days, weeks.
And he wasn't even a bad guy.