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Even though it's an open system, we still exchange a lot of private data, things like credit card numbers, bank information, passwords, and emails. We all send and receive information over shared wires and connections. The internet is an open and public system.

Science at UC Berkeley and I work for the Department of Defense where I try to keep information safe.

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