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➜ PART 3: CONTROL YOUR RISK ONLINE
The day gets better ... eventually
8:15 AM: All dressed up for pictures, you enter the school, wondering what kind of response you’ll get from friends with malware-infected phones.
8:22 AM: After having three phones full of ransom demands in broken Eng- lish thrust under your nose, accompa- nied by variations of “yo, this?!”, you get your answer. People are annoyed.
8:25 AM: Adele, that sometimes mean girl with a locker near yours, looks you up and down as you’re stowing your backpack. “Hah!” she says. “Don’t you look sweet! Didn’t you know? The school picture text was a hoax. Read the school calendar much?”
10:15 AM: By the time you get to morning break, you realize you are one
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