Posts Tagged ‘protection’

How To Create Strong Passwords You’ll Remember

If you like the idea of using strong passwords that are hard as nails to crack, but fall apart trying to remember numbers and symbols - like me - here are some tips that could save you your next identity theft.

This method works by creating meanings for symbols:

! excitement, strong emotion
@ the letter A, the word “at”
# number, pound, tic-tac-toe
$ money, value, the letter S
% a part of something
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June 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: identity, password, protection | 21 comments»

Protect your identity like it’s your home

“…Most people have a good idea of how to protect their houses from burglars, but few know the best ways to protect their identity and prevent identity theft.” Money for the Rest of Us has a fantastic article that draws parallels between protecting your identity from identity thieves and protecting your home from robbers.

Don’t open your door for just anyone. You wouldn’t let just anyone… » Continue

March 1 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: identity, Money, protection | 1 comment»

13 Easy Ways to Safeguard Your Privacy in 2007

Many of us worry about privacy or personal data - if you do, you should spend a bit efforts to protect them. A blog called ICWT: In Corruption We Trust introduces 13 ways to protect your privacy. They are painless and easy to perform and could effectively protect your privacy. Take several and implement them:

Don’t Use Your Middle Initial.
Get a Non-Published Telephone Number.
Get a P.O. Box and Use It.
Print Only

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January 2 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: privacy, protection | 2 comments»

Open Source USB Privacy Suite

Traveling Forever has a very informative and useful article on how to set up a USB stick for encryption and anonymous surfing, if you’re concerned about your internet privacy, especially when it comes to your government’s use of your data.

You see, there are fundamental problems with the way the internet was designed in regards to security and privacy. Every email message or web address sent unencrypted (probably every message… » Continue

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: data, eff, freedom, privacy, protection, security, software, usb | 4 comments»

Protect Your Tech

One of the best blog names ever, Marketallica, (from Istanbul) has a collection of ways to protect your digital assets. These are mostly software-based systems to report back to a service once you report your technology missing.

We’re getting to have more valuable digital assets. Pictures, files, our archives…etc. Risk of losing or risk of being stolen is getting higher. Protecting our mobile assets would be big market for entrepreneurs… » Continue

May 22 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: protection, security, software, Technology | 1 comment»