Protect Your On-line Reputation

If you're not careful, it's easy to do silly things that harm your on-line reputation. In this podcast episode, we discuss some simple things you can do here to prevent that from happening!

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We suggest four principles:

1. Bite your tongue - assume everything is public and permanent
2. Lock up - protect your passwords
3. Don’t talk to strangers - be careful when you’re out and about
4. Listen up - monitor what others are saying about you

Web sites we mentioned:

• the Failbook blog
• Wikipedia - Use strong passwords
• Recent Sony hacks
• The top 500 worst passwords of all time
• Recent MacDefender malware on Apple Macs
• Recent Gmail “hack” (which was actually phishing)
• Use the EFF HTTPS Everywhere Plug-In
• Google Alerts
• Social Mention.com