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Before you can dive into the nitty-gritty details of how to seriously bump up your cybersecurity, you need to have a basic understanding of the landscape. In this chapter, I’ll help you understand what your real risks are, how safe you can expect to be, and how to get the most out of this book.
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A Luddite is someone who shuns new technology, usually due to fear and ignorance. The term comes from a group of English workers in the early 1800s who destroyed the new textile manufacturing equipment because they felt it was threatening their livelihoods.
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Note that the same cannot be said for using debit cards online. I will cover that later in Chapter 9.
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Parker, C. (2018). Before We Begin. In: Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3852-3_1
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