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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Privacy & Web-based services

How private is your Web-based service?

  • Author: Chad Perrin

    • This does not mean you should never use a Web-based service, of course. There are many cases where the privacy of a particular bit of data is not of critical importance. Just be sure you know what information you should and should not trust to a Web-based service provider.

    you should not be putting your usernames, passwords, and e-mail addresses into your forum posts here at TechRepublic, let alone any credit card or social security numbers. For the same reasons, avoid sending that information in e-mails through Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, or any similar services. Do not put such sensitive information into documents composed with Google Docs, either.

    That does not mean you cannot use Google Docs to compose your grocery list, though, or that you cannot trust Yahoo! Mail enough to send an e-mail mentioning a public event. Part of security awareness is being aware when security policy is getting too paranoid to be useful.

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    Posted by Lara Nieberding, The Data Digger at 9:49 PM

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