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Digital Identity: The Next Big Step

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

As information becomes a commodity, cyber crime is becoming a serious affair. So serious, in fact, that the FBI is taking steps to dismantle the operations of one of the more frustrating subsets of web criminals, the ones that run bot nets. Bot nets are clusters of computers, often operated remotely without their owners knowledge […]




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  • none can protect the world from hackers. hackers will live forever
  • Ha, indeed.
  • I have more then one website but I'm trying to not connect them in any way. Also, I never speak with others about websites I own and I use different passwords for each and every username I have.

    I don't consider myself paranoid, but you never know what may happen.
  • Great tips!
  • A useful tip is to reveal as little as possible about yourself online or offline when applying for goods or services. Give only your initials and surname, avoid giving your post-code, use a secondary email address.

    Just because a web form has a field for your middle name doesn't mean you have to give it.

    Then when you get an email addressed to 'A. B. Geezer' you'll know not to trust it.
  • That's another fantastic tip, just because information is requested doesn't mean it has to be accurate.
  • oh... hacker's sometimes really cool, sometimes not....

    Panama

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