You don’t want anyone on the internet to be able to access your personal information.
Even malicious code running in a browser window from a sketchy website you accidentally clicked on could potentially steal data that lives elsewhere on your machine, like a downloaded receipt that happens to contain your mailing address. You can find a good overview of what these exploits are here: In a nutshell, these are design flaws present in most computers, including your phone, laptop and also all the computers we run and manage in ‘the cloud’ that could let malicious apps on your laptop or phone steal or observe the private data of other apps running on the same device, without you or the other apps knowing that this happened. You may have read about frightening sounding exploits made public last week known as ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’.
Meltdown and Spectre: what you can do to protect yourself
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