Your online identity is precious. Here’s how to protect it | Holly Brockwell
People who would never leave their front door unlocked can be dangerously lax about their online security. To be safe, follow these rules
You’ll never have more ideas about how to protect your identity than the minute after you realise it’s been stolen. Suddenly, you can see in painful detail all the doors left unlocked and breadcrumbs scattered across the internet for a hungry thief to find. It’s a strange reality that there are people who will lock, alarm, and stress about their front door at home but blithely post sensitive information online that is in effect the key to their accounts.
We should all be guarding our information with the feverish paranoia of a top-ranking politician with a whole family of skeletons in the closet. Because no matter who you are, there are people who’d benefit from stealing your identity, and right now they know a lot more about
