Where are we going? (Not a rant)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 12/07/2012 06:58 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> I do not care ab out arguing with him, I care to give advice to others
> (if they care for my advice, feel free to fully ignore).
>
> Don't follow that model, it's broken security wise, unless you keep your
> machine disconnected from the network.

In the end if you are going to keep your machine secure et all you have 
to keep it disconnected there will always be bugs which can be exploited 
when you are network connected ;)

I personally think people should start worrying more about application 
they install on their mobile devices ( which they more often then not 
grant access to privacy information themselves ) or information they 
expose themselves on various social network sites willingly, unaware of 
the consequences it might have then having their OS cracked.

If I was a crook I would simply use various online tracking sites or 
social networking sites to monitor whether you are home or not and 
simply rob you when your post on your status that you have gone on 
holidays next to the picture of your house tagged with the geographical 
coordinates to it or when an app places you on Starbucks.

Or I would collect all those idiotic question people have to provide 
answer on various online sites including banks cross reference them to 
you social network pages and your posts, then simply call your bank, 
provide answer to those questions and wipe your account clean.

Much more simpler, probably pays better of in the end and harder to 
track down compared to cracking your laptop OS or explode a bug which 
requires you to be a skilled programmer or cryptography engineer to pull 
it of..

Seriously why bother cracking people OS to get to this information when 
it gets handed to you on silver platter by the individuals themselves 
online?

JBG

"There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about 
who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. 
What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the 
information!"  Cosmo