EPISODE · May 21, 2018 · 9 MIN
A Location-Sharing Disaster Shows How Exposed You Really Are
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
There are plenty of guides available on how to protect your data, how to secure yourself online, and how to stop digital snoops from tracking you across the web and then profiting from that intrusion. (Sorry, “monetization”.) You should do these things. But if a cascading series of revelations this past week has taught us anything, it's that all of those steps amount to triage. The things you can control add up to very little next to the things you can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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There are plenty of guides available on how to protect your data, how to secure yourself online, and how to stop digital snoops from tracking you across the web and then profiting from that intrusion. (Sorry, “monetization”.) You should do these things. But if a cascading series of revelations this past week has taught us anything, it's that all of those steps amount to triage. The things you can control add up to very little next to the things you can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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