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Category: Behind the Book (Page 10)

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Behind the Book

I Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube

Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.

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A brick propping open a glass door in an office or institutional building, symbolizing a security breach caused by human

Behind the Book

I Got Caught Hacking in 1981. The Professor Made Me Head of Security.

The biggest breach I ever watched was defeated by a brick propping a door open for smoke breaks. Home security fails at the human seam, not the technical one.

SEE » Technology series