There wasn’t class today, but the articles posted for us to read were all about passwords, cybersecurity, and how easy it is for us to get hacked. The first article really did hit home for me because I use pretty much the same few passwords for every one of my accounts, so if I forget what it is for a specific account I can just rotate through the list and try them all, knowing it’s going to be one of them. The fact that there are sites and services that you can buy other people’s account information from for as little as $4 is absolutely terrifying to me. I’ve been “minorly” hacked a few times before, I fell victim to a facebook scam when I was in middle school where someone on my friends list messaged me a video asking if I was in it, and when I clicked on it I started sending out the same message to all of the people on my own friends list. I also got a call from my grandmother recently saying that she had received a fake email from me with a similar virused link attached, but she was smart enough not to open it. In both cases I simply changed my password and moved on, but the fact that it’s so easy for someone to get into your entire life, hack multiple “secure” accounts just because you clicked on a sketchy link is really scary. How often this has been happening on a national level with big banking corporations and  government agencies is also rather terrifying and especially frustrating. How are we supposed to trust the government with our safety and protection when they can’t even keep our data safe? They’re supposed to have the best systems in the world guarding our information and yet there have been an increasing number of data breaches, as shown by the wiki article and recent events, that put us at major risk. It’s not right.