We have published yet another story concerning leaked emails, this time it is US Rex Tillerson in the firing line.

Leaked emails obtained by BBC show businessman Elliott Broidy met with Trump in October lobbying for Tillerson’s dismissal over his lack of support in the Arab region’s effort against Qatar.

Go to: “Leaked emails show UAE-backed lobbying effort against Tillerson” to read the whole article.

How did the BBC obtain these leaked emails?

Ahh. Now that question will probably never be answered, and if it is, will it be truthful or tell us anything at all?

Beware all of you. The Internet is a very unsafe place.

When one sends a letter to someone via the postal service and it is intercepted and made public it is automatically an offence.

However, when the same thing happens over the Internet the issue is very cloudy.

The Internet is unsafe!

Today, there are about 4.9 million devices in the Internet of Things. This number is projected to reach 25 billion by 2020. Yet a study by HP Security Research showed that 70 percent of the objects within the IoT contained major security flaws. Ninety percent of devices used unencrypted network service and 70 percent had weak passwords.

Former vice president Dick Cheney had the internet connection on his pacemaker turned off in 2007.
Ford, GM, and Toyota have been sued by plaintiffs claiming the automakers have deliberately hidden the dangers associated with car computer systems.
A former Tesla intern, Eric Evenchick, created a device the size of a credit card that can allow a user to take over an Internet-connected car. The cost? $59.95.

SOURCE: https://www.broadsoft.com/work-it/how-safe-is-the-internet-of-things

It has been argued that manufacturers have little incentive to prioritize internet security, therefore a new government agency should be established to oversee cybersecurity rules.

Sounds reasonable but this would immediately stifle innovation.

When two of our computers and our back-up external drive went bad, all in the space of 48 hours, we were like a small boat floundering in a turbulent sea without a sail, engine or rudder.

So we had to take our ‘machines’ to a third party to repair and recover data for us. If that third party was someone like the BBC we might have been the subject of leaked emails.

Our politicians and public figures might then learn exactly what the Editor-in-Chief of iNews Cayman really thinks about them.

You see how unsafe the Internet really is?

Footnote: I have to go on record and thank Computer Geekz, located in Queens Court on the West Bay Road, for their very fast and expertise in getting us back into the oceans that surround the Internet.