Tips to safe guard your private data
Short Note:
Remember I was raving about the NUS bash featuring a nightie wear segment?
It turns out that the girls doing the catwalk were actually hired models, chey.
The Edison, Gillian and Cecilia saga has blown to such epic proportions that I don’t even need to talk about it.
 Sex sells, especially in ping.sg. |
Seems that people are more interested in Edison’s mojo rather than finding out what actually happened.
But the news is out. Looks like the computer technician who repaired Edison’s laptop did more than just fixing it.
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There was once when I was using my friend’s home computer and I chanced upon his folder of self taken photos. Boy did I help myself to the buffet when he went bathing.
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All I did was to plug in my tumbdrive, transfer and pretend nothing ever happened. So easy!
It goes to prove that the even most trust worthy of friends cannot be trusted. Of course I returned the favor by writing a hilarious entry for him, ha.
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With cameras and tumbdrives being more sophisticated and easily affordable, people can snap pictures of you in the least expected places, or easily fish data out of your PC.
What does this teach us? NEVER EVER keep your private data in places easily accessible to the public!
So mrchrispy brings to you some easy tips to safeguard your private data and prevent accidental leakages. Especially to the tech amateurs, it’s always better to be safe than sorry.
Tip #1 - Keep your data in portable storage devices
Photos are precious source of memories to many of us. Some blogs I read (Like THB, TAL, DFP and DHB) have a vast collection of bedroom photos. Taking pictures is fine since it’s a private affair but it can get disastrous when it falls into the wrong hands. You wouldn’t want the repairman to see your bedroom antics won’t you?
The best bet? Keep files in tumbdrives, portable hard dives, or CD/DVD recordables. Such storage medias are relatively cheap, have a long lifespan and can be chucked away from preying eyes.
That’s unless even the portable storage media is faulty and you have to send it for repair.
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Tip #2 - Write your confidential particulars elsewhere except in the computer
Many people are now very dependent on their PCs and have multiple usernames and passwords to email accounts, blogs, forums, instant messengers and even online banking. Some choose a variety of usernames and passwords while others stick to the same log-in IDs.
Whatever it is, your computer is prone to hacks and unauthorized access as long as it is connected to the internet. Do not ever write your particulars as text files and save them on the PC! Write them instead on papers, post-its or in notebooks that you know where to find when you need it.
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Tip #3 - Hide your files in hard to reach places
If you don’t have removal storage devices, that’s fine. Just remember to store your private files in places where people least expect it. Something like this will do the trick.
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Just pray hard the user doesn’t know that there’s such a thing called “Search function” la.
Tip #4 - Ban the use of portable storage media in your house
When you have friends coming over for project work or simply to ogle at your photos. Let them know that the house rule is “No portable media devices are allowed”.
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Tip #5 - If all else fails, remember save your computer
Ok, so you’ve saved your data in a portable storage media, written your username & password in a notebook and prevented your friends from using tumbdrives in your house. Congrats! You’ve done all the necessary precautions to safeguard your files!
But what happens if there’s an evacuation, flood, or if a fire breaks out? Always remember to carry your computer with you in such cases of emergencies.
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Nothing else matters, really.
