Your phone is a hacker’s dream. This is what happens next

A former Green Beret explains how AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile each suffer from weak and antiquated security measures, and engage in invasive data collection, pooling, and selling practices.

I spend a lot of time talking to people about privacy and security, and I’ve come to recognize a pervasive learned helplessness: “All my information is out there already,” or “That ship has sailed.” I believe this helplessness comes from a mistaken sense that the problem is too big to be solved.