The InterNet - a liberating force, or another means of oppression?

StevieJ

TruckerT wrote: »

There is pressure to allow the security forces to tap into internet exchanges in the same way in which they tap into phone calls, which seems to me entirely reasonable.

TruckerT

Just out of interest does anyone actually think that horrific incident in Woolwich wouldn't have happened if the communications bill had been given the go ahead? Seems that Lord Carlisle thinks that and appears to be disgracefully pointing the finger at Clegg.

‘If it really is the position that you have vetoed the substance of the previously proposed legislation, I fear that this may come to haunt you and the party if any terrorism event occurs which could otherwise have been avoided.’
The murder of the soldier is an illustration of exactly what I meant.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2331011/Why-Drummer-Rigby-s-slaughter-haunt-Clegg--Lib-Dem-Lord-Carlile.html

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Wouldn't they just hack our email boxes though, so we're the ones paying 0.1p per email x however many thousand?

That would have the added advantage that people would learn very quickly to keep their mailboxes secure

vivatifosi

chris_m wrote: »

That would have the added advantage that people would learn very quickly to keep their mailboxes secure

I agree with that, but it doesn't help when the likes of Yahoo are getting hacked:eek:.

dryhat

Strong passwords are the first step to prevent hacking of accounts.

Gudelines suggest using at least 10 characters, mixture of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols.
Additionally by not using any real words within the password you prevent a "brute force dictionary attack" which is the most common way of hacking.

Since getting into Bitcoin a few months ago, I have learnt loads about internet security and have gone back and secured all my passwords using these proven methods.

StevieJ

dryhat wrote: »

Strong passwords are the first step to prevent hacking of accounts.

Gudelines suggest using at least 10 caharcters, mixture of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols.
Additionally by not using any real words within the password you prevent a "brute force dictionary attack" which is the most common way of hacking.

Since getting into Bitcoin a few months ago, I have learnt loads about internet security and have gone back and secured all my passwords using these proven methods.

And don't write them down

dryhat

StevieJ wrote: »

And don't write them down

It depends how paranoid you are.

Personally I think it's safer to have long, strong passwords written down somewhere and kept safe than to have weak, easily remembered ones not written down.

There are some good techniques out there for generating a strong rememberable "seed" password and then adapting it for each site you use.

Passphrases are meant to be even more secure (but some sites don't accept them).

"correct horse battery staple" is such a well known example that it if you google it, it is predicted on the "h" of horse.

Try it.

purch

dryhat wrote: »

Gudelines suggest using at least 10 caharcters,

I agree, using real words makes hacking easy :eek:

kabayiri

There's a company called Reputation dot com who advertise on the radio claiming to protect "your company's online reputation".

This is an interesting concept. Is it possible that you could find yourself debating with some professional reputation maintainers on a forum?

Would this be commercial freedom in action or a form of oppression?

(By the way, if anyone argues against this point I shall just pretend you work for one of these outfits )