Chapter 4 Protecting Your Passwords
After protecting your computer, the next most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to consider your online passwords. Most of us have a dizzying number of online accounts and passwords, and struggle to keep track of them all. Your list of websites, e-mail addresses, and passwords is the modern cyber keychain. Unfortunately, even though this keychain is virtual, the stakes are real. Passwords protect your data, your messaging, your contacts, your software, your commerce, and if you bank online, your money. You must take passwords seriously and treat them like the “virtual keys” they are.
This chapter discusses some ways in which you can create, manage, and protect your passwords to computers and ...
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