online security
You don't have to be up to things nefarious to be concerned about privacy online. Merely attempting to do your banking via an open wifi hotspot or send/receive personal email on your phone or laptop a...
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CFerguson wrote:
If you think Verizon and Comcast and Charter aren't selling your data, well Hello Pollyanna.
+1 on Protonmail. Have used them since when they were in beta.
If you don't want to worry about your data and are willing to fool with it when/if problems arise, then by all means do so. Others of us try to minimize our exposure so as to minimize problems. Nothing wrong with doing it either way- just go in with your eyes open and know the risks.
Just for fun I went deep into my Google account yesterday and clicked on several of the "not-so-obvious-abscure" settings that they kindof provide for us to kindof control what they collect and have on us users: Wow ... I turned a whole bunch of vaguely named data and location things "OFF" ... and also found a section where Google stored my passwords to several organizations that I do business with that have nothing to do with Google. I eliminated from their storage database 10-15 of my passwords!!
Google is useful for certain things, but can be dangerous.
