Why you need to be aware of the information security?
Do you have any experience to change your new personal computer or new phone? Do you hear anything about the photo leakage when reparing the phone? Did you delete anything that you don’t want to share but suprisingly that can still be recovered by the engineer? No worry, you are not alone. This article is just a collection of some basic concept for you to understand under what kinds of condition, your information can leak to others.
Minimizing the usage of the internet is the principle to prevent the information leakage.
The easiest way to secure your personal information, including photos, locations, personal identification like phone number, name, etc, is not to use anything on the internet! but that is an exteremly case that is not convienent for the morden human living in the city like that. Therefore, the key is to minumize the usage of the internet. For example, if you try to connect everything from dish washer to the air condition on the internet (IoT), that also increasing the way for leaking your information! Is that really nesseary to explore your air condition control to the internet? The AC company of course would say, this is a brilliant idea to make life more easier! But wait, do you really need to make your life becomes more complicated? Is that really nesseary? Can you do things in more easily way? why you need to spend your money on those unnesseary functions?
How to throw electronic device away without information leakage?
The two main methods to destroy the information are logical and physical methods. Logical means you formate the disk through the software method, or by commends in the computer. On the other hand, as you can imagine, physical method can just like burn the disk, bend. smash… etc. But if someone really want to hack your information from those damanged disks, it’s also avalible! Therefore, before throwing the disk, it’s important to encrypt the info first!
When you are on the internet, why those hacker are interesting to your information? I’m just a normal person! It’s not fair!
Motivation, methods and vulnerability are three essential elements for hackers to attack your personal device and get what you want. Sometimes, motivation is just becuase they really want to show off! Nothing else. So don’t be the one with the highest security, it should be better to be a nobody on the internet. So hackers cannot target to you directly! Of coruse, there are plenty of methods to hack your personal information. Do you think that internet is the only way to get your personal information? Don’t be to naive, hackers can just copy the credit card number and the password by the creit card machine itself! Or using the most old way, just recording the video when you are typing the account and the password. For the vulnerability, it’s also easy to understand, if you don’t protect yourself on the internet, then it’s like you are telling hackers to rap you directly. That’s so insane. So the basic idea is to secure yourself with a good password at least.
It’s important to be aware of the information security, it’s 101 course for the people who live in the internet generation.