On Getting Hacked

Summary

Having worked in tech for years, I had in myself a confident conviction that I would never be as dumb as falling for online traps. I am well acquainted with all of the common hacking attacks and have never been at the receiving end of one of them so far as I remember. Some of my credentials I found in leaks, but that, I was not responsible for. I avoid downloading random apps and files from the internet and have been using a password manager with these long, random types of passwords, called Strong Passwords, or Digital Gibberish, which you'd not be able to memorize even three consecutive characters from at a glance, unless one were a gifted person (I am not). Added on top of it, I had 2FA active on every service.Who doesn't like to go to a website, be prompted to get authenticated, open their password manager which also might need you to authenticate, type in their master password, search for the name of the said website, copy the password, paste it in, be prompted for an authentication code, pull up their phone or email client, which again might need another authentication, proceed and repeat. I call this endless exercise Digital Suffering. Security is important, of course, but on a universal level, we're missing a cohesive master plan, in which a user, a human, need not undertake endless and repeated manual fend-off of the devil. We have mostly figured out how to securely communicate between two computers; we need to now figure out how to do that between a computer and a human. If I sit down at my desk, my computer should know it is me, the owner, and spare me any efforts of authentication, verification, and all that mundaneness; across all arms and limbs of the Digital. One Signal to rule them all!All of the devices I own, that I paid for with my time, which I will never get back, don't act like they really know and belong to me. All the digital goods that make money out of me don't do me the service that I think I (ideally) deserve. At every turn, they ask me, ...