Tuesday 19 December 2017

The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked

A post on the ResearchBuzz Firehose blog links to Motherboard with this comment: This is really extensive but the guidelines are simple enough that even relative beginners can follow many of them.

Do you want to stop criminals from getting into your Gmail or Facebook account? Are you worried about the cops spying on you? We have all the answers on how to protect yourself.

One of the questions we are asked most often at Motherboard is “how can I prevent myself from getting hacked?”

Because living in modern society necessitates putting an uncomfortably large amount of trust in third parties, the answer is often “not a whole lot”. Take, for example, the massive Equifax hack that affected roughly half of the American population: Few people voluntarily signed up for the service, and yet their information was stolen anyway.

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I have only skimmed through it and yes, it looks reasonably easy to follow.


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