A lot of people are worried about their cybersecurity these days and with good reason. With almost all of our lives online and in digital databases these days, it’s super important to make sure your data is safe. You’re already on the first step of a safe and secure digital footprint Tom Jeffries of Des Moines, Iowa. Based on your search history for the last couple days, you’re looking to beef up your digital security and make sure it’s secure. Don’t worry, I have you covered. Just follow these 9 steps and no one will ever be able to steal your data.
1. Buy an Expensive Antivirus Program
Tom, everyone wants to know the same thing: which antivirus program is the right one for me? Well, how expensive is it? Most antivirus software programs charge a certain amount per virus blocked. Hence, the more money you pay, the more viruses it will weed out. That’s common sense. And the comparative cost is tiny compared to all you stand to lose of your $86,522 salary.
2. Reuse the Same Password for All of Your Accounts
Using only one password is best because it allows you to hard-code all the security to a single, controlled source. And a short password is best. Why? Well, the longer the password is, the more pieces of it someone will be likely to guess.
How does one get ideas for a password? Why is this all so difficult? What are the first five digits of my social security number again? These are questions we all ponder and answer in emails to ourselves from time to time. Next tip.
3. Giving Remote Access to Your Desktop Is a Polite Thing to Do
Imagine treating your first pet (Sprinkles) like a stranger. That’s what it will feel like if someone you are speaking to requests remote access to your desktop and you decline. Maybe that is considered commonplace in Europe, but not here.
If you have concerns, stop holding yourself back. Just like you may have had success with exercise by joining your local Planet Fitness and making regular $16.49 payments for three months, here, too, your efforts will pay off.
4. Let’s Not Get the Law Involved
I don’t want to get political here, but the government is rounding people up and throwing them in jail for being immigrants or gay or numerous other sales demographics. Don’t go down that road, for the sake of your friends and neighbors (like Steph and Mel, the Ibanez family, etc., I hope you’re getting the picture). As Democrats, we know we should be on the right side of history. Don’t go to the police.
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6. Don’t Buy an Antivirus Program Unless Contacted First
If you sought out an antivirus program, chances are it might not be compatible with your system. As a TEACHER, SECONDARY, PUBLIC/PRIVATE [personalize later], you don’t know about computers. The antivirus specialists that come looking for you have found a perfect antivirus match for your computer. You should allow them to proceed.
7. Password Managers Are Not Worth the Hype
Why would you need to get someone else to “manage” one short password? It makes absolutely no sense. That would be like someone trying to “manage” the lien title on your used 2018 Toyota Highlander.
Sometimes, you just gotta drive the damn car.
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9. Don’t Fall for Two-Factor Authentication
Large corporations will try anything to get your phone number out of you. Do you want to get 3-way calls in the middle of the night from Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg? That’s what you’re signing up for.
How many factors will be enough for them? It’d make me want to save up all my factors just for myself: take photographs of my driver’s license, birth certificate, retina, and blood, and email them to myself. So Tom Jeffries would be the one in control of them, and let’s see what they say then.
