Sunday, 5 June 2011

It is dangerous to leave your sites signed in unattended.

Suddenly I thought about this.

Yeah, we've heard to BEWARE of wolf in sheep's clothing. But what about this? :


In order to catch the wolves in sheep's clothing, we should be sheep in wolf-in-sheep's-clothing clothing. Confusing? Not for me. Clever? Yes. ;)

If you dress like this, it IS confusing. The sheep will get unnecessarily scared.

So let's wear wolf-in-sheep's-clothing clothing!

On the other note, it is dangerous to leave your sites signed in unattended. For example:
Facebook - a place where u speak and you have private groups and send private messages that you would not want people whom you would not want to pry into all your private stuff.

Gmail - since it is now linked with blogger, your private emails can get accessed, without signing out, anyone who sits down in front of your unattended computer is able to access your private blogs, read your mail and open up whatever sites that is linked with your gmail. That's why I hate it when these online sites want to link up. The greatest danger happens through that - if the one password is known, one site can be accessed, then all the other sites can be accessed and hacked. Convenience is not the key in this. Privacy is.

Skype - Skype has all the history of your conversations displayed in just one clicked. With a prying person (might even be mom who likes to know stuff that you are not disclosing to her) they are able to read every single conversation with the contacts you have on there.

And with a personal laptop that has all your passwords saved on for your convenience to just one click, PLEASE AT LEAST SET A PASSWORD ON YOUR LAPTOP USER MENU. I've met people in college who would use other's laptops without asking for permission.

So, yeah. My thought for the day. I'm home so I have been using this common desktop of my home. With mom being an avid stalker of me and my bro on facebook (man she even added my close friends there ><) and quite a facebook addict like us youngsters! I have learnt to make sure I sign out everything when I might be off the computer for more than 2 minutes - the amount of time for my mom to settle down on this chair and click on anything.

Have a pleasant day. xD

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