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Stay Safe In A Virtual World

Jun 14, 2013
by Caroline Miller
"Build a fortress around your finances", "The Easiest ways not to get hacked", Laura Sinberg, Rebecca Greenfield
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This week I came across an article about identify theft which offers tips worth passing along. As the author Laura Sinberg observes, “Hackers have become sophisticated at using one bit of information as a wedge to pry out more.” (“Build a fortress around your finances,” by Laua Sinberg, More, June 2013, pg 42.)

 If a hacker gains access to any sensitive material, he can create a false identity and use a phony email address to trick members of your social network into sharing their personal information as well. (Ibid. pg. 42.) To protect yourself and your friends here are some of Sinberg’s tips:

 Use a password keeper: There is software that that allows you to save dozens of passwords under one master password. The master password is the one you use to access all your accounts. Sinberg suggests trying, 1Password, agilebits.com/onepassword. It’s a fee for service site.

 Pay for Wi-Fi privacy. Yes you can get Wi-Fi free at a coffee shop, but everyone else can read your information. To be safe, buy you access.

 Disable geotagging. This is the feature on your IPad or smartphone and digital camera. When you email a picture with the device on, you are e-mailing a lot more than a picture.

 Another suggestion from Atlantic Wired, (The Easiest ways not to get hacked,” by Rebecca Greenfield, 5/28/13) is to create a password of 11 characters, preferably not a real word.

  If any of this information helps, the blog has done its work. Stay safe.

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  1. MaryBethKelly June 14, 2013 at 11:57 am Reply
    Excellent advice, Caroline. I picked up a couple of important suggestions. I have one suggestion on how to do a winning password. It sounds difficult at first, but rapidly becomes a cinch. I got the tip from Farhad Manjoo, Slate writer on technology. First you think of a couple of lines that you can remember. One could just use a phrase, such as my children are great kids named Jill Joe Fred and Amy. Or, my choice is to use a couple a lines of poetry. For example, Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her. Ignore the commas, and just choose the initial letters, so you get: PPpehawackh. Now add a couple of numbers somewhere. (I tend to put them in the middle.) Thus you have your password: PPpehawackh5504. It is hard at first and then becomes old hat. You can keep track of the password by making a list of just the numbers. No one can figure out what the rest of it is.
    • Caroline Miller June 14, 2013 at 12:19 pm Reply
      MaryBeth the advice you provide is so ingenious, I'm still scratching my head. No, just kidding. Excellent strategy and thank you for sharing!

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published five novels

  • Getting Lost To Find Home
  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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