Afraid to be online?

I receive many spam email as well as messages on  different platforms. Personally, I don't care as long as I don't click on any weird link. I believe that hackers look for something important that we value most. if I don't have something that control me so any data that I have is not important.

I once saw a post on Facebook, it was an image of a chat between a person and someone who is supposed to be a hacker who leaked her photos the chat was as following: 

The hacker: sent personal photos......

The user: how much do you want?

The hacker: 1 million L.E

The user : don't bother I will upload them myself.

Such post was just like how I think and believe that we who give value for the things, and hackers take advantage of what we choose to be our weakness' point.

I am not saying that there is nothing important in our lives, I am saying that everything has a solution. 

We are all at risk of being hacked even if we don't have what really matters, we can just be used as a link to others who have classified and important data.

We should take precautions however we shouldn't be hard on our selves.

We shouldn't click on links, we should block spam users and have antiviruses, still we aren't 100 percent safe. there are still those grudge people and envious people who are surrounding us but I believe that we who give power to anyone to try to blackmail us. I believe that staying safe online starts from inside us.

For an example, I don't wear hijab so a photo for me will never be a source of blackmailing even if it was leaked and I myself who upload them online and for public but that's not the same for a girl who wears hijab in a different society who can be killed for such an act.

There was a girl who committed a suicide here in Egypt because someone leaked her photos from her mobile phone with no hijab. she suffered from bad treatment from all her community as well as her parents, they were believing that she who was sending such photos for that person who just hacked her phone. 

Eventually it is us who give the hackers power.