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Mar 4, 2008 9:51 PM

in response to:
PCWorld
Re: Does Your Security Suite Also Protect Your Privacy?
1. Move anything that could compromise you to offline storage. A reasonable capacity USB Flash drive works great for this, and can be stored in a discreet location away from your PC in case you have a break in. Keep it PHYSICALLY SECURE.
2. Only connect and mount that storage when you need it. Unmount and remove it when you're done with it.
3. If you're paranoid, unplug the network cable when you do mount the drive.
4. Don't let the PC remember any important passwords 'for you'. There is no such thing as a secure way to cache passwords. NONE. If you can't remember them, put them on a text file on that external drive for future reference.
There, isn't that easy? You're 100% protected, and I saved you who knows how much cash for software that isn't worth the disk it's stamped on.
Evil spyware can't shoot your tax records and bank account passwords up to the bad guys if it's not there to be forwarded. Make sure you remember your passwords and turn off ANY form of password caching in your browser or email client. After a while, you hardly notice typing the stuff in.
On a notebook PC for instance, if it gets stolen out of your car, it won't have ANYTHING sensitive on it. So no worries, other than your notebook got stolen and your car probably has a broken window.