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The sheer number of people who say things like "Don't you have backup copies of all your member's IM conversations?", "Don't you keep copies of everyone's e-mail", "Can't you SEE what sites I've been to?", or "I'm away from a computer/can't access e-mail on my machine, so if I give YOU my password and just change it later, can you go in and tell me what I have?" completely and utterly baffles me. Here, random person, be able to read my personal stuff on a whim! Do they not have any idea of what a security violation that is, not just of company policy, but of actual, big-bad-boy no-fooling Federal law? The amazing thing is not that identities get stolen, but that more of them are secure. *shakes head*
It might not be a bad idea to make sure you're in a secure relationship before you go leaving passwords and account numbers scattered around your new squeeze's crash pad, either. Don't cry to me if she then uses your e-mail to e-harass the chick you dumped her for when she found out about said chick. That heavy thing on top of your neck? Round, solid...you know? Yeah. That would be the head to think with, thank you.
Not every strange thing on your computer is a hacker at work. Contrary to what Hollywood and mass media would have you believe, legions of light-deprived, antisocial, genius adolescents with bad skin in their parent's basement are not, in fact, out to get you. Even if they were, I doubt they'd go after individual machines as opposed to say, getting in to a government or a financial institution's mainframe. Have a firewall, and run your safety scans. Do not call me. Do not call the FBI, for the love of little fishie crackers. We have actual work to do.
It might not be a bad idea to make sure you're in a secure relationship before you go leaving passwords and account numbers scattered around your new squeeze's crash pad, either. Don't cry to me if she then uses your e-mail to e-harass the chick you dumped her for when she found out about said chick. That heavy thing on top of your neck? Round, solid...you know? Yeah. That would be the head to think with, thank you.
Not every strange thing on your computer is a hacker at work. Contrary to what Hollywood and mass media would have you believe, legions of light-deprived, antisocial, genius adolescents with bad skin in their parent's basement are not, in fact, out to get you. Even if they were, I doubt they'd go after individual machines as opposed to say, getting in to a government or a financial institution's mainframe. Have a firewall, and run your safety scans. Do not call me. Do not call the FBI, for the love of little fishie crackers. We have actual work to do.