5th
December
2005
Concrete steps to protect yourself online
“One area where we ‘geeks’ in the culture are not doing a very good job lately, is in providing concrete advice to our friends and family about how to protect themselves online. Viruses, spyware and security breaches at large institutes make big news, but really the greater risks are from our own actions and practices online. In particular in exposing ourselves to identity theft and other crimes that are occurring on a smaller scale every day.”