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For anyone who isn't aware of it, FB is now showing addresses, phone numbers, everything. So if you're a Facebook user, click account, privacy settings, then click "only me" for email, home addy and phone number.

I didn't get but the original "tears in my eyes" email from "Vickie". I'm feeling a tad neglected, haha. I did wonder for a few minutes why she didn't say *what* hotel, but then again, I was only on my first cup of coffee Figured it out soon enough. And thank goodness we're all as smart as our red dogs. Or at least, almost?

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~Mariah
Qhaveat Pharaoh
~Since 1987~
...to keep faith with the Ancients...
Dedicated to the preservation of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Hound~
~in form & function, body & soul.

.. Mother Finds Internet Passwords On Website
Posted: 7:34 am EDT July 16, 2010Updated: 8:23 am EDT July 16, 2010
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- Channel 2 Action news found that Internet users’ sensitive personal information could be just a point and click away for anyone to see.
Stephanie Schuessler contacted the Channel 2 newsroom after learning someone hacked her son’s information through the social networking website Facebook.

“Some has breached ... his passcode,” she told Channel 2 Action News reporter Eric Philips.

Schuessler said someone hacked her 16-year-old's e-mail address through his Facebook account, then changed the security questions on his e-mail account so he couldn’t verify the e-mail address belonged to him. She said the hacker began sending out messages from his account.

“It’s identity theft on Facebook,” Schuessler said.

Philips received a tip that hackers have been storing personal information, including e-mail addresses, passwords and usernames for social networking sites, e-mail accounts and commerce sites, including Netflix.

Internet expert Uday Banieree said hackers use spyware to lift that information directly off your computer.

Banjeree said they deposit the information on public sites that have unlimited storage.

Banjeree said you should keep your security software up to date. He said you can check to see if you’re information is compromised by putting your e-mail address or user name into Google. If your information shows up on a foreign website, he said it’s possible you’ve been hacked.

More ways to protect your passwords and identity:

I never use a "remember my password" option for a site I log into. That creates a "cookie" on your computer that is a fairly easy hack.

Along those same lines I set my browser to delete my temporary files and cookies every day. The less stored the less is available to hack. With the speed of our computers and connections these days you really do not gain as much advantage as you used to by keeping the temporary files and cookies as before.

Think I'll go resset my Netflix password...That's another way to protect yourself...keep changing those passwords.

Also, do not store passwords in plain text or a spreadsheet on your computer. Instead get a reliable shareware password storage tool that encrypts the passwords. I use one called "PasswordVault" from www.lavasoftware.com. You set one strong master password to enter the tool; meanwhile the tool uses '896-bit double Blowfish encryption' to store all your other passwords. Essentially it would take a supercomputer to hack the password vault.

Hmm, this is beginning to sound like work...think I'll go play with the dogs...

Hope everyone is staying cool. Gracie and I volunteered at a greyhound meet 'n greet this morning. When we got home at 11, the first thing I did was hose her down...Neither PH would have liked it but she sure did!
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Ruth
Sharing a home with
Gracie the Greyhound,
Bo, Galadrial's Cuervo Gold,
Harvey, CH. Lileo's Wild Rabbit Pooka, JC, CGC,

At the bridge--
HRH Chantze, Chart Polski, CGC (the most Polish Princess),
Rufous T. Firefly, CGC (my first PH--he knew how and when to beam a grin)