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Posted on May 13, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 21.20 • 2024-05-13

ON SECURITY

By Susan Bradley

For many years, I thought it silly to consider adding an antivirus program or other security software to our phones.

Phones were seen as gated communities the bad guys couldn’t enter. Windows was the Wild West, where anything could be downloaded, and we found ourselves with malicious software installed on our systems.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.20.0, 2024-05-13).
This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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