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ORIGINAL: FangsNfeet

When online, it never hurts to wear rubber gloves.

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ORIGINAL: pinkpleasures

Use a good firewall; or two. People are probably acquainted with the major providers....and many firewalls can be downloaded for free and used for brief periods of time. i suppose an enterprising person could keep up the free offers indefinately.

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

the only thing that will guarantee--100%-- the safety of your personal information is for it NOT to be there. take all the precautions you want, there is still the chance that a hacker will get in, take personal information and/or leave a virus behind.

same thing with real life. the only thing that will guarantee you will not get abused or taken advantage of by another human being is for you to NOT be alive.

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Living your life in a state of "hyper-vigilance" can be not only exhausting... but you might miss out on all sorts of grand things because you are quivering in fear about every bump in the night, you know?

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Use a good firewall; or two. People are probably acquainted with the major providers....and many firewalls can be downloaded for free and used for brief periods of time. i suppose an enterprising person could keep up the free offers indefinately.

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When I chat with people and once in a while one of my online friends will send a "?warning" that I should send to everyone else on my list; after the first time (years ago) I've never done it again because someone told me that it is a way for the sender to track the recipient's moves online and to track with whom one is chatting; can anyone tell me weather this is true or false? M

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Also go and google your telphone number. If your number is public, it will list your address as well as give a link to a map to get to your home. On the page that lists all this is an option to remove your listing.

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ORIGINAL: Gauge

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When I chat with people and once in a while one of my online friends will send a "?warning" that I should send to everyone else on my list; after the first time (years ago) I've never done it again because someone told me that it is a way for the sender to track the recipient's moves online and to track with whom one is chatting; can anyone tell me weather this is true or false? M

Unless the email has a file attached or some type of malicious HTML code there should be no way to track you through an email. Most of those supposed virus warnings and other nonsense

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ORIGINAL: Veav

I also don't use Internet Explorer anymore, I use Opera; not only is it just plain better, with tabbed windows and no chance of crashing the OS, but with IE I have used all the precautions named above and still been infected with a virus for the crime of visiting the wrong website. I didn't download anything or accept any certificates, mind you. I just loaded the page. So I switched to Opera and I've never had another spot of trouble.

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thank God for cell phones.....maybe i aught to google that?

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ORIGINAL: OscarHargraves

Here's another one (maybe this should be a seperate thread). What can you do to insure your safety when you are going to meet someone for the first time?

I always tell Subs that I'm interviewing to have a safety call set-up. Leave all the relevenat information with a friend and tell that friend to call the cops if they don't hear from her by a certain time. I also invite them to bring a friend along if they wish. The best way is to meet in a public restaurant or coffee shop where the friend can wait at a table across the room while we talk.

Any other ideas?

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ORIGINAL: ElektraUkM

Good idea to set up a suggestions thread, pinkpleasures.

Do you know if its possible for people to hack through MSN as well as Yahoo?

What do you think of this site for file transfers? http://www.yousendit.com/

~ Elektra

"Do you know if its possible for people to hack through MSN as well as Yahoo?" the short answer is YES. Some time ago when i was with MSN Gor we had a 14year old Girl calling herself "Surf-Kitten" who was trying to hack every Gorean Site till they were destroyed. I know a couple of CM members were there and may remember her. Anyway she was also stealing MSN Communities as well . I know of 7 people who she hacked, destroying their computers. Last I heard was that The FBI were looking for her on 18 hacking charges which if found guilty and the sentences served concurrently, she was facing half of her life in jail. So yes hackers can do dammage. The real geeks can do more damage than you can immaging especially if your computer holds your personal details, drivers licence and back details... It can be another method of ID Theft.

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Living your life in a state of "hyper-vigilance" can be not only exhausting... but you might miss out on all sorts of grand things because you are quivering in fear about every bump in the night, you know?

Oh boy, that really had me laughing fit to bust a gut…… I can’t speak for any but myself. I do not nor ever have in the last 30 years lay in bed quivering with fear. Certainly if I hear unusual noises, and such things wake me even from deep sleep to a high degree of alertness, I go and investigate. Out of habit I carry a semi automatic 9mm pistol (full mag and one up the spout) loaded with glasser rounds, which explode on impact. That’s not fear just habit from a lifetime of being armed 24/7. As for missing out on things, I must confess I have no idea what you mean. If you refer to siting under a night sky and communing with nature, I do that regularly and I’m never alone, my Goddesses are always with me. Am I missing out on the party scene? If parties are not play parties I never go, I am not a party animal and do not relax in a room full of drunks. If its play parties, I don’t go anyway so I cannot think of a single thing I am missing out on. I do miss the smell of napalm in the mornings though.. Would that some one could bottle it .. <chuckles>

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

the only thing that will guarantee--100%-- the safety of your personal information is for it NOT to be there. take all the precautions you want, there is still the chance that a hacker will get in, take personal information and/or leave a virus behind.

same thing with real life. the only thing that will guarantee you will not get abused or taken advantage of by another human being is for you to NOT be alive.

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p.s. i try to get out in nature as often as possible.. which isn't as often as i should. Its lovely out there.. especially on cooler nights in the summer... it's fun to camp out right in the yard.. no tent, of course.. then i'd miss the sky. ~ i didn't do that this summer though...... last summer i did a lot!

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Pink, you for example, have given enough personal information about yourself and your past history on these boards that anyone could locate you if they wanted to spend a half hour or hour or so to do it

stormsfate

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sorry this slave has never been an online victim of evil.

MercnBeth

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But, yes, I've successfully stalked people before (per their request, I have fun friends!) and I've never resorted to being a mad hax0r. The only security exploit I used was google. Use common sense, ladies and gentlemen - the internet is a public bulletin board, and anyone can find what you've written if they have enough patience.

Veav

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Oh boy, that really had me laughing fit to bust a gut…… I can’t speak for any but myself. I do not nor ever have in the last 30 years lay in bed quivering with fear. Certainly if I hear unusual noises, and such things wake me even from deep sleep to a high degree of alertness, I go and investigate. Out of habit I carry a semi automatic 9mm pistol (full mag and one up the spout) loaded with glasser rounds, which explode on impact. That’s not fear just habit from a lifetime of being armed 24/7. As for missing out on things, I must confess I have no idea what you mean. If you refer to siting under a night sky and communing with nature, I do that regularly and I’m never alone, my Goddesses are always with me. Am I missing out on the party scene? If parties are not play parties I never go, I am not a party animal and do not relax in a room full of drunks. If its play parties, I don’t go anyway so I cannot think of a single thing I am missing out on. I do miss the smell of napalm in the mornings though.. Would that some one could bottle it .. <chuckles>

IronBear

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Alot of ppl don't realize this, but u can set the security levels of IE (especially in XP SP 2).

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