[beachy]

> But it's hard to make that connection. People seem to accept identity theft as "something that just happens sometimes"

A little like the way people talk about "cyber warfare".

In real warfare, the enemy can attack your forces no matter what you do.

In cyber warfare, you can build impenetrable defences. The only way the enemy can attack you successfully is if you make a mistake.

This kind of thinking IMO is perpetuated by absurd tv shows where e.g McGee can hack into any computer system by tapping on his keyboard for a few seconds.

It's harmless on TV, but in the real world it leads to complacency about security. People saying"poor Equifax, they were attacked" instead of "Equifax's security was a joke, and they left their system wide open for anyone to plunder".

[ptx]

> The only way the enemy can attack you successfully is if you make a mistake.

Now we just need to find a piece of software that doesn't have any mistakes in it.