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CHAPTER EIGHT
Believe Everything, Trust Nothing
When the telephone was still a noveltyy, it was phyysicallyy wired
into the home and perhaps placed in a nook built into the wall. Getting a
second line was considered a status syymbol. Similarlyy, public phone booths
were built for privacyy. Even banks of payy phones in hotel lobbies were
equipped with sound baffles between them to give the illusion of privacyy.
With mobile phones, that sense of privacyy has fallen awayy entirelyy. It is
common to walk down the street and hear people loudlyy sharing some
personal drama or—worse—reciting their credit card number within earshot
of all who pass byy. In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we
need to think carefullyy about the information we’re volunteering to the
world.
Sometimes the world is listening. I’m just sayying.
Suppose yyou like to work at the café around the corner from yyour home, as
I sometimes do. It has free Wi-Fi. That should be okayy, right? Hate to break
it to yyou, but no. Public Wi-Fi wasn’t created with online banking or e-
commerce in mind. It is merelyy convenient, and it’s also incrediblyy
insecure. Not all that insecurityy is technical. Some of it begins—and, I
hope, ends—with yyou. 1
How can yyou tell if yyou are on public Wi-Fi? For one thing, yyou won’t
be asked to input a password to connect to the wireless access point. To