A Presidential Announcement Discussing Identity Theft
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by Chocolate McSkittles
Today's nightly address is going to be devoted to the very serious topic of identity theft.
Unfortunately, as in all situations there are people who will take advantage of you, your account, and your belonging to pursue a goal. I'm going to provide some tips to help you avoid this situation and keep you, your eFamily, and your businesses safe.
Take them seriously. It only takes one mistake to lose everything you've built in the eWorld.
1) Change your citizen password and the password to all organizations. Everything. Now.
2) Change it to something not obvious. For example, if your citizen name is part of your password, you're doing it wrong. Good passwords are 20+ characters long and are the functional equivalent of you slamming your face on the keyboard while occasionally holding shift. Fortunately, there are sources available that will do it for you if you are unwilling.
3) Use a real browser.
4) Internet Explorer does not qualify for a "Real Browser"
5) Don't share your password with friends. Its quite simple, the easiest way to get ripped off on the internet is to trust someone on the internet. It rarely ends well. You also become liable for anything they do, possibly losing your account in the process.
6) Do not use the same password for you account, email, forums, organization, facebook, and neopets. If one gets compromised theyre all gone.
7) Do not click on links to off-site websites unless you know what the domain is and/or trust the person, especially while logged into eRepublik. This is especially important in "wIN LotS of MuNEy" lotteries you receive in PMs. If you fall for that, you're really bad at being on the internet.
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Do not click on Tiny-Urls unless you have a tiny url preview addon or use the preview feature.
9) The link in #8 was a tiny url, if you clicked it, shame on you.
10) IF YOU'VE READ THIS FAR AND HAVEN'T CHANGED YOUR PASSWORDS YET YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
-Choc
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first y/n
hell yeah
Good advice
I wonder how many I can get before someone else gets one
shit
INVADE MEXICO PLZ
also top gun should be endorsed as official movie of eUSA
finally i would like to see our president impeached.
reported identify theft. Choc would never care about that issue this much to make an article.
>> also top gun should be endorsed as official movie of eUSA
cool troll bro
Topgun has homosexual undertones for heterosexual people. For gays, it has Heterosexual undertones but thats another story
Top Gun can never be troll it IS the best movie and the tactics of the movie can be used in erep.
Chocolate is so hot.
I was looking for the bathroom, how'd I end up here?
NO YOUR DOING IT WRONG!!!!
16th!!!
I can lose my Neopets? ;_;
Seriously though, very important issue.
Next Obama's speech to the nation:
"Close all the windows before sleep to avoid pie theft (codename "Annoying-stuff-you-must-keep-in-mi nd-like-eat-otherwise-bad-things-will-ha ppen"😉.God bless America."
<3 Choc
Marry me!!!
Im not going to change my password lol. Sorry.
mu pass is 12345678910
Choco, the president who cares!
Protect the interweb noobs!
Get your pets spayed and neutered!
"Good passwords are 20+ characters long and are the functional equivalent of you slamming your face on the keyboard while occasionally holding shift."
C'mon, you've been reading way too many BOFH stories. My bank account password is 15 characters long and I'm a bit of a security freak myself.
Also, probably the best way of making good passwords for the common user who doesn't like to remember 10+character strings is MHALL. MHALL is an acronym for "Mary Had A Little Lamb". The procedure for generating passwords that way looks like this:
1. Chose a phrase that you can somehow easily remember, but that will be hard-to-guess for anyone else (if your nickname is "tolkienfan2", then "You Shall Not Pass" will not qualify).
2. Take the first letters from the phrase (if you want a modification, take first 2 letters from each word, so "You Shall Not Pass" would become "yoshnopa"😉.
3. Capitalize random parts of the string. Let's take "All Shall Praise And Follow Dio Relentlessly And Eternally" as an example. This gives "aspafdrae". Now capitalizing the "😉" for "😉io" lends "aspafDrae".
4. Use "leetspeak" (aka "13375p34k"😉 to transform some of the letters into numbers. For example, the string above might become "a5p4fDra3".
5. Profit!
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>"All Shall Praise And Follow Dio Relentlessly And Eternally"
Now I have to go change my pass -.-
I clicked on the link in #8 ˇ_ˇ can I please have my gold back choc?
VOTED!
I love rules 3 and 4!
I changed my password to "Chocolate McSkittles". Is that good?
Use keepass people.
Rule 4 is so true... Hell, don't use a corporate browser! Use your own!
lol "if you do that, then you're pretty bad at being on the internet"
But, a serious article, and a good ifea publishing it
choc, but sometimes tinyurl is the only way to put links with ?
Carr De Vaux: ...Then use the preview feature...
Voted
Good passwords are 20+ characters long and are the functional equivalent of you slamming your face on the keyboard while occasionally holding shift. -> rofling as I type
funny story, that's exactly how I chose my latest password...
I have two passwords for everything on the internet 😐
choc, but sometimes tinyurl is the only way to put links with ? +1
>😎 Do not click on Tiny-Urls unless you have a tiny url preview addon or use the preview feature.
> unless
lol neopets
Please read this:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-admin-please-create-wap-version-for-site-1426254/1/20">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-adm[..]/1/20