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The trouble with trust
What went wrong with your phone to make for such a crummy start to the day? Well, first, nothing went wrong with your phone. Something went wrong with how you used your phone—specifically, how you trusted what was happening with your phone.
That text message with a link to down- load Space Noodle didn’t actually come from your friend from summer camp. It
came from the hackers—perhaps Rus- sians, perhaps the Chinese, or maybe someone pretending to be Russian or Chinese—who infected your friend’s phone with malware.
The malware then got access to all of your friend’s contacts and gener- ated the extortionate text. When you clicked on the Space Noodle link inside the text, you downloaded that
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