The ONLY reason viruses and worms persist is because of technological inertia in the installed base of software and hardware. If everyone switched to "dumb" browsers and email readers... one huge avenue of vulnerability would be eliminated. We don't do this because we like eye candy trinkets and shiny shit.
... the bottom line is any real or imagined threat from the machines exists only because we allow it to exist out of laziness, convenience and inertia.
Does anyone FORCE you to put mineable data on your cell phone? NO! A standard issue Mk 1 Mod 0 pencil and a little pocket notebook will create a "personal database" that's unminable by any remote software that could ever be created.
But we'd all rather have the cell phone.
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