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by fwip 3083 days ago
Most attacks aren't targeted at specific people. Hackers don't want to read your emails, they want your credit-card information, digital account passwords, or to compromise your computer to use in their botnet.

Sure, you might not have anything you want to hide in your life, but the drive-by javascript doesn't care about your secrets - it'll hack you anyway. Best-case scenario, you lose access to a bunch of accounts you used to use and need to create new identities from scratch. Worst-case, they clean you out financially, steal your identity, etc.