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5 Ways to Protect Your Data While Shopping Online
carlvincent | December 3rd, 2008
Whether you’re a 23-year-old diva shopping on Zappos for silver ballet flats, or a 52-year-old engineer purchasing semi-conductors on Buy.com, you need to know how to protect yourself in the big bad world of Internet commerce. In an effort to consume everything under the sun, from the latest techno gadgets to household items and corporate supplies, and do it all in less time for less money, consumers everywhere are going online to buy the things they need, making the Internet the most profitable (and dangerous) place to do business. This presents an obvious conundrum. With bored preteens, desperate criminals, and unsavory crackers everywhere trying to make a quick buck by stealing your data, what does a weary shopper do to separate themselves from the billions of potential theft targets wandering the Internet? The short answer is: “nothing.” But before you start unplugging your computer and chucking your Internet enabled cell phone into the fireplace, contemplate this…how different is virtual life from the real thing? Sure you can walk down the street carrying a can of mace or pepper spray; still, is that really going to stop an assailant armed with a 9mm pistol concealed inside his or her jacket? No, of course not. But stopping crazed criminals is not the point of commercially-available personal protection devices. The point of things like pepper spray is to keep the crazies and “small-time” crooks at bay. No one expects pepper spray to stop a big-time mobster. The bottom line: even if you keep Continue reading…
