Make Hackers’ Jobs Harder
Scatter the pieces of your personal data so bad actors can’t assemble the puzzle.
In The News Piece in Slate
March 20, 2015
Embracing insecurity may seem like a terrifying prospect. But once we have come to terms with our collective vulnerability, we can begin to devise strategies to shield ourselves against the next (inevitable) wave of digital attacks—and perhaps finally break the historical pattern of everyone being caught by surprise by each new breach and having to resort to resetting thousands of passwords, closing accounts, and the other costly forms of damage control that have historically followed major breaches. Although much remains to be done, there are plenty of options for making our personal information harder to exploit that are readily available right now—and few reasons not to use them.