The will to be oneself is heroism
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems
There is no patch for stupidity.
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.