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We’ve talked about how to surf the Web safely and covered the basics of digital communications. Now we need to cover a few other related topics that have to do with your online behavior in general. We’ll cover online banking and shopping, social media, cloud storage services, and just commonsense tips for living in the digital age.
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Web browsers may eventually stop showing the lock icon because it will just be assumed—they will only show something if the connection is not secure. Google has already said as much in late 2018. Personally, I think they should keep the lock icon.
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They were fined “up to” $700 million. But they also made $3.5 billion that year. One executive did go to jail: Jun Ying, the Chief Information Officer. But it wasn’t for lax data security, it was for dumping stock before the breach went public. He got four months in prison.
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Note that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, and Facebook owns Instagram.
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If you haven’t seen the Netflix documentary The Great Hack (2019), it’s well worth a watch.
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The technical term for this is “time-based one-time password.” For some reason, this is abbreviated as “TOTP,” not “TBOTP.” I guess it rolls off the tongue easier?
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The website Visual Capitalist has a great infographic showing just how long these terms are. They say that Microsoft’s terms of service would take as long to read as Macbeth. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizing-the-length-of-internet-agreements
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Parker, C. (2020). Online Accounts and Social Media. In: Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6189-7_9
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