Internet

Survive Online

Being connected to the Internet changes your life forever

Suddenly the world can see into your home and access your personal files, passwords, confidential letters, medical reports, bank accounts - yes, YOUR MONEY.

Gartner estimate two million Americans each year suffer checking account fraud equating to $2.4 billion - an average of $1,200 per victim.

Criminals are on the Internet in large numbers, methodically searching, stealing and selling information. Of greatest interest and value to them (other than industrial theft and espionage) is YOUR IDENTITY.

Your social and life-style behavior has consequences for you and your family.

Some of the smartest (sadly amoral) people on the planet have devised schemes to fool, bluff, trick or coerce YOU into parting with your money or personal secrets. By accident, in a moment of brain fade, a thoughtless click of the mouse and you are ‘done’. Because your honest, naive, trusting nature blinded you to the subtle, but in retrospect obvious, danger you are now possibly thousands of dollars less well off, your name attached to some smiling face on a false passport somewhere, your username being logged into your corporate network and copping the blame for criminal handiwork - with YOU at home asleep.

You get the idea.

Identity theft is the crime of the 21st century. An art from the start of history, masquerading as someone else has always been a random event for a specific mission. Today it has become endemic, and might eventually assume the significance of actually being kidnapped, the stuff of science fiction (you’ve already imagined how terrifying that is, surely!).

Identity theft is your raison d’etre in this section. Make it your motivation, place it atop your list of reasons to become computer and Internet savvy.

Learning just a little about this one issue ensures it will never leave your mind - and will change the way you view computers, the Internet, and technology in general, forever.

On the Overview page each ‘threat’ is briefly summarized and discussed.

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