technology can be used against us in
ways that we don't understand most
people in our modern society have become
expert users of technology but they have
no idea how things operate under the
hood this is true of all generations
particularly with Millennials people
think millenials are great with tech and
it's true their expert users but when it
comes to understanding the science and
technology the computer science and the
electrical engineering that goes into
making a particular app work most people
are clueless and the challenge of that
is that there are people in our world
who know how technology work the people
who create those tools out in Silicon
Valley and elsewhere and then other
people who take the time to educate
themselves whether it be people who have
studied it professionally or on their
own but in particular even criminals and
terrorists and rogue governments have
worked on these tools decompile them
deconstructed them and the fact of the
matter is most criminals understand your
iPhone better than you do and can use it
against you when people think of
cybercrime or computer crimes they
always think of the basics my credit
card number got hacked my identity was
stolen that type of stuff it's so common
these days it's happened to most people
at one point in their life or another
but there are so many other things that
criminals can do with technology that
the average person wouldn't even realize
so let's take your mobile phone for
example there was an Android exploit
that came out recently called stage
fright and just by sending a text
message to an individual on an Android
phone
anybody who read those messages or
clicked on the links their mobile phone
could be taken over in an instant the
fascinating thing about it is that it
affected 1 billion Android users across
the world so just one hacker could have
taken over a billion Android devices and
once they have access to the devices not
only can they read everything that you
type get access to your entire address
book see every photograph private or not
that you may have ever taken on your
phone they can get access to all your
social media accounts capture your email
address and your logon credentials and
password for all of your financial apps
for your bank accounts investment
accounts that they like and they can
even
tract you physically in the world and
know where you are in any particular
time so they contract your physical
location
moreover they can actually remotely turn
on your microphone and your phone's
video cameras without you knowing it so
the way that these exploits work you
would see no indication on your phone
that is in fact recording it's being
turned against you it's become a bug and
can transmit all of your conversations
24/7 to hackers and they can even go
ahead and serve tisha Slee take over
your camera in fact not just on your
mobile phone but of course the very same
things are true on your computers we've
had many many people have their laptop
cameras hacked and they didn't even
realize it a famous case occurred about
a year and a half ago where a young
woman fifteen or sixteen years old I
think she was 16 was Miss Teen America
young lady by the name of Cassidy wolf
so she was obviously very attractive
Miss Teen America and one day sitting in
her bedroom on her laptop she opened it
up and saw an email that came in and
underneath the email were a bunch of
pictures of her naked in her own bedroom
and there was a message attached that
said you better have sex with me on
camera I'm going to release all of these
pictures and post them on your facebook
profile and alike and share them across
your social media she freaked out didn't
realize what happened slammed down the
laptop and then she did something very
very important rather than ignoring it
or exceeding to the extortionist request
she told her parents who brought in the
FBI and investigated and they found out
after several months of investigation
that it was actually one of her
classmates who had sent her a email
message she clicked on a link that
don'tlet downloaded malware onto our
computer which gave him access to her
whole machine so the young girl didn't
do anything wrong her laptop was just in
her bedroom and the fact that it was
open as she was coming in out of her
bathroom after taking a shower he was
able to capture these photographs
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