Goodsounds;361238 Wrote: > It's best to keep personal and confidential information off your PC > anyway, that way, the true risk is minimized. If someone wants to break > into my system to listen to Jethro Tull, I'm ok with that.That sounds good, > but it reduces the PC to being just a toy. Many people find it very useful for making purchases, paying bills, banking, accounting, record keeping, personal photographs and home videos, and other functions that require things like credit card and bank account numbers and personal information. The beauty of a modern PC is its versatility. And of course, with that versatility comes complexity, and also risk. So one tries to minimize the risk without giving up the usefulness of the machine. It isn't possible to completely eliminate the risk, but then, there's risk in everything, anyway. Never using a PC for anything involving personal or confidential information would be like owning a car but never driving it. You'd eliminate the risk of dying in a car crash, but you'd also get no real use out of the machine. So instead, one minimizes the risk of driving as much as possible, by learning to drive as safely, wearing a seat belt and so forth. We accept the risk as the price we pay for the advantages gained.
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