by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
Malwarebytes is a service that can help you to reduce your cybersecurity risks, but not eliminate them. The Internet will always be vulnerable, because it was developed as an open system.
Malwarebytes reports on two recent new ways cybercriminals can steal your identity.
One results from a problem in Google’s infrastructure that allows cybercriminals to send emails that seem to be from Google. Responding to them can result in identity theft. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/all-gmail-users-at-risk-by-clever-replay-attack?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250428_aprilweeklynewsle
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Another operates by exploiting the Zoom video conferencing system to take control of your computer, drain your bank account or do whatever the cybercriminals have in mind. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/zoom-attack-tricks-victims-into-allowing-remote-access-to-install-malware-and-steal-money?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250428_aprilweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174551916671&utm_content=Zoom
It is not only cybercriminals who are after your data. So are commercial services and sellers of products. A suit has been brought against Shopify for installing tracking cookies on customers’ iPhones and using this data to create a profile that can be sold to merchants. If successful, the lawsuit is likely to greatly raise the cost to Internet marketers by dragging them into courtrooms in many jurisdictions. Defending in multiple jurisdictions easily exhausts a company’s capital.
So, just as the vulnerability of the Internet raises the threat level and cost to individuals, it also raises the cost to Internet commerce and service providers.
There needs to be some objective cost/benefit studies of the digital/AI revolution. From observation, I conclude that the costs are sharply rising, and the benefits are declining. Indeed, many claimed benefits, such as students using AI to do their assignments and, thereby, never learning any skills, such as how to write a theme, solve a math or physics problem, in fact create an ignorant population devoid of ability to function independently of technology. They have no ability to even know if the information provided to them by AI is correct. Their minds are totally controlled by whoever programs the software.
The digital revolution has driven up the cost of cars and appliances and made them increasingly frustrating and costly to repair.
The digital revolution has made it extremely costly in terms of time and stress to resolve any service issue problem. Problems that in the analogue age were resolved with a three-minute telephone call answered on the third ring, now can go on for hours and days. A telephone call gets you a robot voice programed to answer questions that you would never call about and to direct you to another robot voice to take your payment or add to your service. It is a struggle to ever get a human, and when you do, it is someone in Asia who you can barely understand and wants your Social Security number in order to tell you that they don’t have the authority to deal with your problem, but they will connect you to a higher up. Sometimes it happens and you reach a higher up, but usually via a return call 24 hours or more later. Sometimes your bank account is frozen, and you can’t get to it when you need it. Your credit card gets compromised, and you have to be issued a new one, which often means you have to re-notify all of your automatic payments you have foolishly been tricked into: “Go Paperless, Save Trees, Save the Cost of Stamps,” and spend a day of your life informing your autopay service providers and merchant accounts of your new credit card number.
Everyone can add to this list, and on top of it all the digital revolution has caused people to cease answering a ringing telephone. About 95 percent of calls are scams. If a person recognizes your number, you might get a call back, and if you recognize the number you might answer. Today a telephone is mainly used for scrolling the internet and watching porn.
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