Technology has helped advance our civilization. It has helped us communicate, get to space and improved the quality of our everyday life. Our society has been able to reap the benefits of technological inventions for many years. Lately those benefits have come at a price.
In the past year we have bore witness to security breaches, credit card hacks, massive corporation leaks and even a DDoS to an entire country. Computer hackers have been able to work around machines for many years. There is even a list of the top 10 Hacker groups with their funky names. They have our information, our credit cards, and the ability to shut down large corporations and small country's. So why are we blindly handing out our personal information to websites and social mediums on the daily?
I'm not just speaking about Social networking sites like Facebook (although I am able to find out anything about you directly from that). I'm talking about Home mortgages, insurance, student loans and bank accounts. People pay and sign up for these. Now days we only deal with the companies online. Remember the JPMorgan Chase cyberattck? That's just one instance of security gone wrong.
As these things continue to happen and hackers get more courageous, you may find that one day you will have been theft-ed and your 'online' life taken over completely. If that happens, your 'real life' may become obsolete.
Cash. Stick to cash. Go to the bank in person and set up an account that is not connected to the internet. There are still ways to get around the internet. You have to avoid the marketing that persuades you to be online. Cash and landlines. Even if it makes it harder, you should always have both of these.
You never know when the world will be subject to a 'Fire Sale' and you will need a back up. Just keep it for the OnlineApocalypse next to your Zombie Survival kit.
