Proportional Personal Security

The pace, scope and sheer randomness of recent breaches have brought me to reconsider my laissez-faire approach to personal digital security.1 What do I mean by that? Up until now, I was the kind of guy who tried to avoid all kinds of multi-factor authentication because, of course, it’s just annoying. I have long adopted Felix von Leitner’s (“Fefe”) “Lying on the Internet”2 stance, because it’s only a matter of time until your data gets hacked, stolen or leaked one way or the other. Yet I always assumed that I would never become a person of interest. Because what is there to get? But as in any good mob movie drive-by, with capable LLMs at scale and at marginal cost in the hands of anyone, you (or I, for that matter) could just fall victim by chance. One month of security incidents In the last four weeks alone: Hackers heated supermarket fridges in nine European countries, after a first round in France where some caught fire. PHP patched two critical vulnerabilities that could allow…

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