I spent part of my afternoon down at Rembrandt’s reading The Art Of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. As I was reading, it was difficult not to overhear a conversation between two college-age girls next to me.
Apparently, one of them has been paying for psychological counseling and was told that she needed to “open up” and “learn to start trusting people.” What struck me as being so ironic was that I had just finished reading this: “In a perfect world we would implicitly trust others, confident that the people we encounter are going to be honest and trustworthy. But we do not live in a perfect world, and so we have to exercise a standard of vigilance to repel the deceptive efforts of our adversaries.“
