Rocket Girl said:
I assume then that you do not use a bank or own any credit cards. Banks have been robbed, credit cards have been stolen and scanned from a distance.
I inspect each ATM for skimmers before use, actively use ATMs within businesses where possible, pay by cash if possible, audit my bank statements, use anti-fraud measures properly and know what kind of figures my bank ensures my transactions for. There is a compromise there but it's minor.
Rocket Girl said:
In fact, why are you on the internet? The internet is used to steal people's identities all the time. Do you know the security measures each site you visit employs? Maybe it's too much of a risk to even try browsing. You mustn't be a hypocrite.
Of course I know their security, in fact I actively audit it and restrict insecure cross site linking and scripts. I also look at a site and decide what data I feel I can trust it with. For instance, this account dead-ends onto a temporary mail account that will have cycled out of existence by now and isn't connected to any of my other accounts. This is common for all of my forum accounts.
I'm not a
hypocrite, I'm a
professional. In fact the cloud is kind of one of my areas. I would never use a cloud based storage service without encrypting the data before it was uploaded unless I had a bulletproof, airtight liability declaration with substantial reparations. You know what? I was writing my dissertation and wanted to back it up so I spent an afternoon reading usage policies. None satisfied me so I didn't use them...and that was for a document that could potentially cost me a year of university, not potentially ruin my life.
Rocket Girl said:
Or we teach people that women have a right to their own body, we make it harder for hackers to steal, and we focus on the criminals and not on what you think a victim of a sex crime should have done and you get to continue using the internet.
And by 'we' I guess you mean people like me, not people like you. Because, no offense, but I don't see your input being particularly useful.
The fact is that this was a morally and legally wrong thing of those people to do BUT that you need to take basic protective measures when it comes to your life and property. For some reason it's only embarrassing stuff, and specifically embarrassing stuff involving
women (because as per most things no one cares when it happens to men, as this did incidentally) where people are afraid to give this advice. The fact is that if you blindly trust a service you can't begin to understand based on an assumption it'll be fine, and trust it with life changing data, you are a moron. You don't deserve to have anythign bad happen but you are a moron and you could have done more to prevent it.
