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3. The Three Ups: Back Up, Clean Up, and Update

Carey Parker1 
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North Carolina, USA
 

With the key background knowledge from the previous chapter, we’re ready to really dig in and start taking some truly important steps to being more secure. If you were to do nothing else but follow the tips at the end of this chapter, you would be miles ahead of most people.

Backups

What if you had a time traveling device…Doctor Who’s TARDIS, Hermione’s Time Turner necklace, Doc Brown’s DeLorean, or the classic HG Wells contraption? Then you really wouldn’t have to worry about security, right? If something bad happened, you just go back in time, before it happened, ...

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