On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:34:40 +0200, Kapetanakis Giannis <bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr> wrote: > But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do > this yourself, then your best option is to choose a strong password and > change it often. Also you have to trust the machine and the browser > you're login in from, to be "clean" and secure. So no logins from your > friend's (hacker wannabe) laptop.
Also, that password you use to protect your email account? Make sure you use it *only* for your email account, never for another account on any other site. Say you use your Gmail address to register for some crappy web site, and you use the same password as for Gmail. When the crappy site gets hacked, the attacker will look at the list of user email addresses and passwords (this being a crappy site, the passwords aren't properly hashed) and use them to try logging into Gmail and the other webmail providers. With access to your email account, the attacker can then perform a password reset on Amazon and your banking and other sites, and really make things miserable... -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/contact/
