Smallish Post 10

In The Cuckoo’s Egg, the number one security weakness that the hacker exploited was accounts that either had weak passwords or never changed the password from the default. That stuck out to me, because last semester I did a paper about cyber security and the need to police the internet. I argued that more effective that giving the government free reign of your computer whenever they wanted would be to simply teach people safe online habits; just like we teach people safe driving habits, teaching people safe online habits—and I would add digital security habits in general– would prevent the majority of incidents like the one highlighted in The Cuckoo’s Egg. It wouldn’t solve every problem, mind you, but it would be harder to hack into a computer in a tech-savvy population, and, just like marathons or climbing Mount Everest, the harder something is to do, the fewer people will even try.