Yes indeed – it did; and spectacularly so. It took my remote IT
person and me over an hour to get him logged on, it was so infected. But thankfully we have a cloud and
everything’s backed up, but for the lovely document I was working on, which,
you guessed it, was a blog entry.
Some extensive research will need to be duplicated; some brilliant
thoughts will need to be re-thought. But today where the actual machine is quasi
irrelevant, crashes are not the drama they used to be. Anybody who saves documents ONLY on their
machine deserves a slap upside the head (you know who you are and you know that
I know). Loosing data today should be a thing of the past.
Yet I know quite a few people who don’t feel safe saving their
information on the cloud (some of those same people have no problem tethering
their smart phones and laptops to public Wi-Fi hotspots. You might as well
shout out your credit card number AND the safety pin in a crowded mall.) But I digress.
How safe is the cloud really?
It’s all in a password. I always love when I read posts where the writer
admonishes readers that “1,2,3,4” is not a password, neither is “QWERT”, nor
your birthdate or Fido’s name. And still
– we can and must do so much more to protect ourselves from being
accessed. It’s not a matter of “I don’t
have anything anybody would want to steal”, it’s a question of identity theft,
of malicious destruction without any rhyme or reason. Where do we KEEP our passwords? Any suggestions on choosing and keeping
passwords safe? I’d love to hear from
you.
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