#secuirty

A note on cyber security & why you should care

Every picture, every text, every location, site history, and even your conversations are stored by your Internet service provider, your cell phone provider, and the companies you’ve agreed to the terms and conditions. Facebook is the most intrusive of any of the tech companies. There Terms of Service you agreed to allows them to change, redact, and add anything they want. Ever have a conversation with someone with your phone in your pocket and notice later after browsing that you are seeing ads about the topic you discussed? When your phone screen is off, it is constantly making note and recording. All this data is available for sale by these companies for various reasons and accessible by our government.  

This a gross breach of trust and misconduct by any standard. How can we protect our information, our pictures, our conversations, and still be have an active influence on social media? You can’t.  Unfortunately, if you’ve agreed to the TOS with these companies not much can be done about deleting that data.

Starting forward you can limit your digital footprint. Limit your social media usage, for me it causes anxiety so that is to my benefits I limit that. There are various browser extensions that will comb through your social media pages and delete, unlike, and unpost for you autonomously. Go through your phone and look at what the apps you have downloaded want access to and make that change to limit what is only necessary.  Avoid interlocking all your apps, software, platforms to a social media account as this can be a hellish nightmare to undo.

A reminder that nothing in the cyber landscape is secure by any means. Every software, application, hardware, device, and platform is vulnerable. The vulnerability has just not been made public as access for a backdoor or the system has not been targeted.

In emergency, i saw the psych liaison nurse. They know me very well there. I told her everything because I trust her, she’s really nice. She said i have to form you under the mental health act and you’ll see a consultant psychiatrist in the morning. I wasn’t happy about staying nd got up and tried walking out. She followed me and tried stopping me but i got outside of the department and started running. Security guards started chasing me and they caught me and dragged me back. The psych nurse and drs in emergency said we are going to give you medication to put you to sleep. I’m allergic to a lot and some don’t work on me so they straight away put an IV cannula in and gave me Ketamine. Then they put me on a Ketamine infusion to keep me drowsy and sedated. I saw the consultant psychiatrist in the morning and i convinced him to discharge me but he said my community psychiatrist said i had to have my olanzpine injection while I’m here first. I wasn’t happy because I didn’t want it but i just shut up and accepted it and left the hospital a couple of hours later. The hospital i tried to set on fire said they’re not laying any charges but if i try it again they will. The police said if i would of set it alight I would of gotten 20 years in jail. The psych nurse in the hospital said i would of been locked up in a forensic psych ward for years.