Cyber security and privacy - or rather the lack of it - is all over the real and fake news. It's not going away. THE IDEA THAT someone could take over your phone, recording your every word and reading all your encrypted social media, would have sounded absurd not so many years ago. And the notion that you could be spied upon through your television set would have sounded like an April Fool's joke. But, like our other 'April Fools that are in fact real' in this month's issue (p62), it happens. According to documents on Wikileaks, it may be exactly how the CIA has been eavesdropping on subjects. You may not think that is a bad thing (like our Washington correspondent Paul Dempsey, p8), but it's a sign of how, in the words of Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy in 1999, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get used to it".
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