Simple technologies
Not as safe and simple as they appear
In our new brave world, technology is spreading everywhere. We use things we don't understand how it work; it work so easily that we don't have and try to understand how it work. We use it and that's it. The problem is that if a thing become to ease to use, we low down our awareness and tend to think that it's not dangerous because it seem simple. Some times, it's true, other times it's not. It's not because a thing is easy to use that it's not dangerous. I don't learn you anything by saying this but we tend to forget these things, me the first.
One example can be your neighbourhood. It's not because nothing happened the time you lived there that nothing can happen. It's not because you never do a car accident and that car seem simple and are easy to use that a car isn't dangerous and that a car accident can't kill you.
Another interesting example that I thought of, and that leaded the write of this post, is the use of cordless phone or baby monitors. They are easy to use, not expensive and everybody use one in their houses and apartments. We can use it at 10, 20 or 30 foot of the base. Wow, thank God for these tools. Yeah, it's true that they are really interesting and useful. The thing that you need to ask yourself is: if I'm using a cordless phone at 30 foot of the base and that I can have a conversation, do another person can? The answer is yes. Must of cordless phone don't use encryption. They seem simple, but they are not. They use different technologies: analog, digital, DSS, Etc... Read the full story...
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