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  • From: Jacqueline Greenleaf <jacque@book-woman.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Hacking & precautions
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:10:43 -0800

Or get your own domain name - you can get an email-only domain account for
much less than it costs to recover from a hacking!


On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Jay Woods wrote:

> I second the motion.
>
> On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:41:01 AM Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>> On 12/18/2011 3:48 PM, Michael Pilarski wrote:
>>> The hacking of my Yahoo account was a real pain in the butt. As far
>>> as I know no one sent any money to the crooks in Spain.
>>>
>>> I now have my Yahoo email account back but they deleted all my emails
>>> and contact list. This will hurt my organizing efforts for some time.
>>>
>>> One lesson learned is that if this happens to you, try to get your
>>> server to restore the deleted info ASAP.
>>
>> Michael and all others:
>>
>> The solution is simple. Don't rely on email services like Yahoo, Gmail,
>> Hotmail, etc., where you store and read and send all your email
>> correspondence online without having copies of everything or doing any
>> of the actual work on your own computer, to prevent your account(s) from
>> being hacked. They do advise you to change your login password
>> frequently, at least GMail does. Use these services but add another like
>> ATT, Bellsouth, etc. that you can use to have, (Ex.) Gmail forward
>> copies of specific or all your email to. Create filters that
>> automatically send certain email from Gmail to your home computer
>> through a secondary service. Or simply forward critical and important
>> email from your online email service to you through a secondary email
>> provider (like ATT or Bellsouth). If there is a way to download all your
>> online email folders, do so. Change your login password frequently and
>> make it cryptic.
>>
>> To have all your important email correspondence and addressbooks at a
>> remote, external email host "in the cloud" is taking a huge and
>> unnecessary chance at losing all of it, having personal information,
>> login ID's, passwords, account numbers, CC numbers and the like stolen
>> and possibly used by thieves.
>
> Having your files only stored on the "cloud" gives multiple single points
> of
> failure, your connection to the internet, the cloud being up, and no-one
> hacking the cloud and damaging your reputation or files. If you use a
> service
> on your own computer like thunderbird, it will automatically (or in my case
> on
> request when I'm ready to pay attention) download the emails to your own
> computer. That way on trips you can see and work with your emails but the
> permanent storage is at home.
>>
>> Every ISP providing you with dialup or DSL service will give you one or
>> more email addresses to use included in the monthly fee. Always use
>> these and backup your external email accounts with them, then back those
>> files and folders up. Use Thunderbird for email and Firefox (make
>> default browser) and Chrome (DO NOT make default browser) for the Web.
>> Copy your Thunderbird "profile" to a secure location periodically for
>> backup copies of all your filters, email and email folders.
>
> I also copy all my files to a second computer every few days when the
> systems
> are stable. That computer is the backup in case the main computer fails.
>>
>> This works and is essential these days.
>>
>> LL
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