Page 35 - Account Security Lockdown

Now that you're familiar with throwaway accounts, using a secondary account
(with forwarding if necessary), and how to filter and manage your inbox - it's time

to move forward toward additional preventative measures in securing not only

your personal information but also your email accounts and any other account on

the web.

Protecting Personal Information...

9 time out of 10 when you're signing up for an email account, social network, or a

plethora of other websites on the world wide web - you'll be asked the inevitable:

what is your birth date?

Advancing personal questions even more, sometimes you'll be asked things like

your full name (obviously), your location or birth place (sometimes for security
question), hobbies, and any other random questions.

While most of these are standard procedure and you shouldn't give it a second

thought, maybe you actually SHOULD think about it carefully.

Where are you signing up to? If it's for your email account, keep in mind that you

may need to know the information you're providing.

For instance, sometimes when resetting or recovering your password, you may

need to enter your birthday (or the birth date you chose for your account).

Because of this, you need to realize that if you sign up anywhere on the web or

communicate your birthday anywhere on the web, publicly (or not), people might
be able to see that information.

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