SeekingTrinity
Posts: 1834
Joined: 5/29/2012 From: The 'burbs of Portland, OR Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Redhusky quote:
ORIGINAL: SeekingTrinity It just seems to me that clicking on some unknown link posted by some random person on a forum is a bad idea no matter how legit the site might be. I'm way too suspicious anymore about potential cyber criminal activity to do it. Well there are other ways to do cyber criminal activity. Your username & email address can be enough. How many forums did you register with the same email address, how many social website with same email and so on. Lets say your created 50 accounts on different sites with the same email. One account being hacked is enough for all your 49 accounts to be hacked. But the big question is, are you worth being targeted ? What information you share on the net? Everybody leaves fingerprint on the net. I did once a long time ago. When i started 9 grade , i copied everybody email address from the school computer. Everybody who used the school computer to sing in, i copied it. It was way back, i thought if somebody tries to bully me, well i would use what i found about him/her on the net against him/her. Never did i use it, but i did almost have every students email address. Did not have any passwords , but if i had any motive to lets say access his/her accounts, i could have. So a link is just one way to do it, there are other ways too. While your using the internet , on the net , there are other ways too. I fully understand all that. However I still maintain that I'm not going to click a link posted from some stranger I don't know on the Internet because it is an unnecessary risk I don't need to take.
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