Sunday, December 21, 2014

The Future of Privacy (part 1)


Last year on Black Friday, shoppers innocently used their credit cards at Target, only to discover later that Target had been hacked and those credit card numbers were stolen. I was one of them. Thankfully, I managed to cancel my card before anyone used it, but others were not so lucky. From August through September this year, the same thing happened at Staples. Where can we shop safely these days with our credit cards? Must we begin to carry around wads of cash again? Our way of life is being frequently threatened by hackers. They steal our credit card numbers, they can get into our email, and they can destroy our computers. Security is not keeping up with this growing threat—for every security measure taken to protect against hackers, the hackers work tirelessly to thwart it. Prevention is almost always achieved in response to an incident, rarely in anticipation of one. What does the future hold for us?

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