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Hacking myself is the most surprisingly humiliating decision I’ve ever made

ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE HACKED. BY “WE,” I MEAN THE famous and powerful, so it’s not something you really need to worry about. But I do. So, figuring the best defense is a good offense, I decided to hack myself in order to control the inevitable damage of being outed by Russians, North Koreans, WikiLeaks, Anonymous or that obese guy in New Jersey whom Donald Trump seems to know a lot about.

Unfortunately, I’ve had bad luck

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