You can now lock your house and arm your security system all at the touch of a button on your phone or your laptop.
You can be in Bugtussle, Mississippi and change the thermostat setting and turn off the sprinklers at your home. Oh, the conveniences of modern technology!
Having all of the intimate details of your family’s absence from your home, along with codes and access numbers easily accessible over the internet. Never mind that CIA firewalls have been breached, military secrets have been decoded, and millions of our credit card PINs have been accessed en masse by a few guys with the right equipment.
But, the local cell phone-internet-and-lawn mower repair shop, where you got your home systems, cannot be deciphered no matter who tries it. Right? Who still thinks this?
Sending or “posting” real time photos of your family frolicking in the surf, shouting from the rooftops that you won’t be back for another six days, all on an account wherein you showed off your family’s new holiday stuff just doesn’t seem very well thought-out to me. Why don’t you come on back before you let the photos go out?
Then your unbelievable vacation can be posted. The cute (albeit skimpy) bathing suit on your darling daughter has still got plenty of time to hit the pedophiles’ prying eyes. I just don’t see how most of this can still be considered a good idea!
The bad news is that most internet thieves are not any smarter than you are. They can unlock your home and disarm your security system as easily as you can.
Now let’s all hurry right on down to stand in the line and sign up for the Apple Cloud Wallet! Give them your bank account, your college hours, your health records, your credit status and all of your money so anyone who finds your phone can instantly be you.
Esther Ramos
