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15 October 2018updated 01 Jul 2021 12:14pm

Facebook’s data breach shows us how the internet is broken – and we’re making it worse

Online data security is fundamentally broken, and the more we link accounts the worse it will get.

Online security is completely broken, and we are engineering the world to make that – possibly unfixable – problem even worse, day by day.

We have a tendency to compare the online world to the offline one, so when we think of security we liken passwords to a door key.

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