On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Michael Winter wrote:
> My oldest is heading off for her freshman year of college with her first
> MacBook Pro (we've been a Mac family since before she was born, but this is
> the first one that's all hers).
>
> What should she know about security? What kind of security software should
> she have?
>
> She knows the bare basics (like not having it automatically log her in on
> startup, having a backup, etc.). But are there things she should know that
> aren't that obvious?
The internet is forever. Don't post anything she wouldn't want read by a
potential employer, stalker, or criminal.
Most (not all) online scams are easily detectable by anyone with the
grammatical skills students graduated with prior to the '70s. Not so much
today.
Don't do anything sensitive (like banking or e-commerce) over a "free wifi"
service, including the campus's own dorm service. Get her a trusted VPN
service and show her how to use it.
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