As it is the first Thursday of May, today is International Password Day. I don’t think it will be a holiday in La Moncloa, according to the latest events that we are learning about, popcorn cone in hand, about espionage with the program pegasus to politicians. According to the technology companies promoting said date, it is intended to “make the user aware of the importance of establishing secure and robust passwords and passwords, since these are the key to our personal information.” It is not necessary to be Pedro Sánchez, with the contents of his official phone unaccounted for, to doubt that the user can do something really useful to prevent the theft of his data. Yes A whole president of the Government fails to keep his terminal safeDespite having a small army of computer scientists and intelligence agents dedicated to protecting communications with his wife or with Macron, what can the rest of us expect? We are left to resign ourselves and apprehensively delete those messages that warn us that our Instagram account has been activated from St. Petersburg. Pray that the guys who from their basements buy and use tools to break into someone else’s cell phone consider us less interesting than Margaret Oaks, the Spanish Minister of Defense who is not averse to a good mass espionage as long as it is sponsored by her own and she considers the cause just. Her little secrets are also in the hands of third parties due to poor protection, our political vanguard has the rearguard very much on the hoof, and the minister can now throw her imagination into a new password that will be of little use to her.
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They charge you an Uber from Toronto even though you haven’t left your country for twelve years and a personal via crucis begins to recover the money and save the savings: no one is responsible, not even the bank that forced you to migrate to the online service. You’re talking to your sister-in-law that you can’t stay tomorrow because you’re going to shave your legs and you start getting offers for aesthetic laser. The social network account you deleted after a dozen intricate steps is resurrected a decade later to spam all contacts. Happy International Password Day to those who have written down the keys to their email accounts, cards and applications on a piece of paper because theyso they have changed so many times that it is impossible for them to remember them. That piece of paper, hidden in the underwear drawer, exemplifies the defenselessness of the consumer in the face of a technology that, on the one hand, forces you to disclose all your private information and, then, blames you for negligence if there is someone who benefits from trafficking it. . The competent authority uses the Data Protection law to hinder the work of the press, but shrugs it off when a public database is hacked and the health references of thousands of citizens fly. Justice, with computer deficiencies so often criticized, is going to investigate cyber espionage on the Government. I don’t miss that episode of the sitcom Pegasus. My first suspects would be those who must already be offering the Government foolproof encryption programs that improve on previous versions and counterintelligence tools. All very expensive, because there is no lock that does not jump with a good credit card.
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