Mohammed Brückner
1 min readOct 15, 2024

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It's fascinating how your piece shines a light on the often-overlooked "soft underbelly" of cybersecurity, that is the human factor. We spend so much time building these fortresses of firewalls and encryption but then leave the drawbridge down through poor security practices or a simple phishing email! This reminds me very much of the research on how our very tools for connection, like social media, can simultaneously create a pervasive sense of loneliness. Is this not a digital echo of the anxieties of a hyperconnected yet strangely disconnected world? We crave easy answers in a world that often doesn't provide them.

I appreciate your attention to building a culture of security through training and communication, almost like establishing good digital habits! We have a real opportunity here to move past fear-based narratives of "doom and gloom" security awareness into creating what might be called a "positive technology hygiene." I wonder what approaches might help empower individuals and groups not only to protect themselves from cyber threats but actually foster a sense of digital agency. Imagine a world where every click isn't filled with doubt, where we actively reclaim our digital presence through informed engagement. Your work nudges us nicely in that direction!

One cannot wait for the future to resolve itself. It's up to each of us to shape our digital destiny with courage and a relentless pursuit of meaning!

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Mohammed Brückner
Mohammed Brückner

Written by Mohammed Brückner

Authored "IT is not magic, it's architecture", "The Office Adventure - (...) pen & paper gamebook" & more for fun & learning 👉 https://platformeconomies.com !

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