Comments on: Don’t Want Your Laptop But What’s In It

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:18:14 +0000

thank you Lynette!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:18:00 +0000

thank you Lynette!

By: Lynette

Lynette — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:05:21 +0000

Carrie, general surfing should be ok. There's still a certain amount of risk because when you connect wirelessly, you're actually putting your computer into a group on the network. So if your computer is not properly secured if I were sitting next to you, I could 'log on' to your computer and look through your files and you wouldn't even notice it.When you're on a public wi-fi place, general surfing is ok and make sure you disable file and printer sharing. Also, set your computer to require username/password to log on. Yes it can be a PITB for you - but just a matter of getting used to. Here's a good step by step for setting user accounts and password logons.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:05:00 +0000

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:02:55 +0000

Would it be ok to use wi-fi out and about as long as you don’t do anything like log in to your paypal account or a site that has your CC info in it, or is all surfing a bad idea?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:02:00 +0000

Would it be ok to use wi-fi out and about as long as you don’t do anything like log in to your paypal account or a site that has your CC info in it, or is all surfing a bad idea?

By: Lynette

Lynette — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:07:43 +0000

They say now they recovered it and the data is intact, hasn’t been accessed. They got lucky but as the spouse of a Veteran, my confidence in their ability to keep our data safe is already undermined. Not that we had such a great confidence to start with.

I’d be so devastated if my customers feel this way about me.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:07:00 +0000

I’d be so devastated if my customers feel this way about me.