American - Journalist | November 3, 1960 -
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
Barton Gellman
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
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