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State-sponsored hackers have the tools to get into anything, anyone that thinks that they are secure because they put on McAfee or whatever is either delusional or ignorant. However, Apple as a company has been very good (compared to the others) about not allowing any built-in backdoors (such as Comey spending millions to get into the San Bernardino terrorists' iphones. If those had been a a generic Android, no problem. (I also use a Blackberry for the same reason).
Most people are just careless.. never use the same passwords anywhere, someone hacking a website would otherwise have a pretty good idea how to get into your bank accounts, Amazon account, etc. Use a password vault and let it create something infinitely complex and 30 characters long, just copy & paste them and use a different one on every site.
Get a personal digital certificate for your email, never use a Yahoo or GMail account (ask Podesta how that turned out..) and pay for what you use if you are worried about security. If it's free, you really need to read the fine print, and you won't like it. Mention Alaska in your email and you auto-magically get pop-up ads and spam mail for Alaskan cruises. No accident. Use the digital certificate to encrypt your mail folders, archive, etc. $3.00 a month or so for Office365 or other reliable service won't kill anyone...
Any banks - use multi-factor, have them text you a one-time password or confirmation or whatever to login. The feature is built-in on the new Blackberries by the way.
People need to stop blaming others for their own laziness or being cheap.
I run windows. Haven't been hacked or infected. But then I was in IT for 20+ years and I don't open all the ports.
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