SITES DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR SECURITY
The sheer volume of reportage on hacking is overwhelming. The sites being hit are the ones that you and I use every day. Some provide useful information, some, valuable services and others perhaps just news or trivia. We use them multiple times a day – sometimes without even being fully aware that we are, like DropBox. We use these sites to store personal and business information, to connect us with potential clients, employers and employees, to help us choose insurance providers, to send us our groceries and some, to just play on. Dropbox allows us to seamlessly log in by re-referencing a cookie they have planted on our computer to ‘verify’ our identity. LinkedIn also uses the same technique when we log in. A user name and password. How secure is that ? Well, not very, given that both of these sites have been hacked and your and my perso...