nads wants you to make sure all of your barn doors are closed

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027166112

More nadisms than you can shake a stick at!

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:34 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)

Some barn doors you might want to close like right now (internet security)

First off, google yourself, your name and city. If you pop up at the White Pages, remove yourself

https://support.whitepages.com/hc/en-us/articles/203263794-Remove-my-listing-from-Whitepages-

Second... how many of you are on Facebook? I see hands... many... ok, ok, put them down. Since most of you are likely using your name... yeah, yeah facebook policy... go to your profile and remove your city. Hell remove a lot of that profile like school you went to, books you have read, anything that might help somebody ID you.

If you have geo location enabled... disable it. It is likely enabled... and every time FB changes policies make sure you do that again. What that does is that when you post, it also posts where you are posting from. So if you are in Los Angeles on a business trip... people will know you are not in Charlestown.

You might want to get those privacy settings higher and let only FRIENDS see your account by the way. You are not paranoid, the world is out to get you.

You got kids.. do yourself and them a favor, do NOT post pictures of the little ones. I know everybody shares, but seriously, do not share photos of your kids. I run a paper for god sakes, and I can legally run photos of kids... in certain very specific circumstances, and I know we are unique this way. UNLESS the kid is at the center of the story... we crop them out, we take them out, we don't run them. I don't care if their parents share every little moment of the wee one, we just don't.

And if they go on social media monitor it.

If you go on vacation... do yourself a favor and DO NOT let the thieves know by posting that you are going on vacation. The same goes for twitter and the rest of social media; For old people, this is like when you did not suspend your paper delivery and they just piled up ok. That includes DU by the way.

For those of you who have a linkedin account... sheepishly raises hand... remove who your current employer is. Yup, if you do all the above, anybody looking for you can find you that way. You might want to consider the previous one I know the triple edge sword here, and HR, and why we all have linkedin, but...

If you still have a land line... unlisted is the way to go by the way.

Photobucket and the rest will actually have your name in the address string in every photo you post. It is like standard. So if you insist, have a nice account with a dummy name. The same goes for MOST blogs.

Most cameras these days have geotagging as well. This has to do with the GPS, disable it. So that information will not be in the metadata. You are not media, you are not law enforcement, you know you were in London... for example... trust me, you do not need that geotagging. So when you upload to social media your great photos of your European vacation, or chiefly your backyard, people cannot pull that metadata. The data includes things like F-stops, date, time, and yes GPS. Anybody with access to google maps can enter that data into it and bingo... we know where your backyard is.

Reducing your presence online is certainly a possibility but that horse left the barn a while ago and we live in a world where it is easy to be found if somebody wants to find you regardless of reasons. So the best you can do is make it hard. If you make it hard then the identity thief (the most likely person to love you for all that info), will have to work hard, and will move to the next target that has not done any of this. The old idea of why people got dogs is exactly the same. A thief will not go after somebody who is making them work... on the other hand, if you hame it easy...

And most folks are far from aware of most of this, why I am sharing it.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:39 AM
Star Member GP6971 (3,263 posts)
1. Excellent information

Thank you.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:42 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
2. You welcome

The missing parts of "you're" were left off for illustrative purposes.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:52 AM
Star Member PADemD (3,706 posts)
3. How does one remove themselves from the White Pages?

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:57 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
4. easy

https://support.whitepages.com/hc/en-us/articles/203263794-Remove-my-listing-from-Whitepages-

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 08:52 AM
callous taoboy (3,709 posts)
40. Says there was a problem verifying my e-mail... ??

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 11:27 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
44. i got no answer for you

might be a network issue

No answer?  Come on, nads.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:07 AM
napi21 (40,291 posts)
5. I know you are just trying to help everyone, but

don't you think you're being a bit paranoid? I realize people can find me. So what? I like it when som old friend from years ago contacts me to say hi. Google earth shows most of our houses anyway. Maybe not the back yard, but it is in some google earth shots, especially if you live on a corner lot. I'm much more concerned about somebody hacking my CC info than I am about someone knowing where I am.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:09 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
7. No actually I am not being paranoid

this is how identify thieves find people, and how many homes are broken into during vacation season.

Granted YOUR chances of this happening to you, or me, are astronomically small.

And for god sakes, I have posted under MY NAME for like ever. But some people did ask how to tighten their personal security. I am just letting them know. It is of course, your choice of how much... or little, you reveal.

I should add about that CC info... if they know where you live, identity thieves love that info, they can sit outside your home and tap into your wireless and wait for you to place that order at Amazon.

Not telling you to be afraid, but this is how a lot of this works for those lovely ID thieves. Granted, they will prefer to do that at the unsecured wi fi at the coffee shop you like to frequent and you took photographs of you and your friends.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:09 AM
mindwalker_i (3,408 posts)
6. What this boils down to is...

Don't bend over and open your ass-cheeks wide on the 'net and run an unsecured daemon on that socket.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:12 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
10. And some of us started right when AOL was just getting started

when many of us used our own name. That barn lost the whole herd a long time ago, but I still do not need to make it that easy, even if it is.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:13 AM
Spitfire of ATJ (25,052 posts)
11. I tell everyone the Internet is a very hostile place....

After all, I'm here.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:15 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
12. And so am I


I call it more like the wild wild west.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:27 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
14. When you talk to your kids make sure they set your birthday

FB insists, to only you, None knows when my birthday is, and I still checked ten minutes ago.

Downside, none will know that your birthday is upcoming. But a birthday is something that ID thieves love, and is critical .

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:32 AM
Star Member Joe Shlabotnik (4,945 posts)
15. Fair advice,

but for some like me, no matter how often I try to help my dad (often un-**** his computer), he just can't resist installing *new*, *free*, *demo* etc stuff, nor does he ever read user agreements, or expand, read and uncheck installation options..... Then he gets embarrassed and blames it all on a virus.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:33 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
17. So you spend a lot of time on that computer

when you go visit? Looking forwards to the day of coffee and mom's computer and she is not that bad.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:36 AM
Star Member Joe Shlabotnik (4,945 posts)
19. No not that much time anymore,

because its a matter of pride to my Dad that thinks he doesn't need my help.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:37 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
20. Ah...

yeah, pretty much we are all there to a point,

We are thinking of getting her a new one. Hers is failing. Like starting to cascade from what she said.

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 09:33 AM
Star Member TBF (29,524 posts)
41. Also if you have kids or grandkids

who like systems like Xbox 360 - check that camera. We have ours turned around and facing the wall. This is when they get on the system and add friends (like Xbox gold account). Those friends can have camera turned on and see right inside your living room (unless you point it at the wall like we do). What if the "friend" little Ayden is playing with is 35 ...

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:32 PM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)
45. We have yet to upgade from the Sony version 2

we are mulling about it, on the bright side that box can also stream netflix, so I might finally break down and do that. Thanks for the heads up. Nothing like a simple piece of tape on it...

[Big Dog]

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 09:33 AM
Star Member TBF (29,524 posts)
41. Also if you have kids or grandkids

    who like systems like Xbox 360 - check that camera. We have ours turned around and facing the wall. This is when they get on the system and add friends (like Xbox gold account). Those friends can have camera turned on and see right inside your living room (unless you point it at the wall like we do). What if the "friend" little Ayden is playing with is 35 ...

More likely, DUmmy, you don't want the whole Internet to watch you molest the cat.

[Mr Mannn]

In general what I'm asked to close the barn door, I just zip up the fly.

[BattleHymn]

In general what I'm asked to close the barn door, I just zip up the fly.

you welcome

[JakeStyle]

That is the last person in the world that I would take internet security advice from.

[SarasotaRepub]

I guess she has added a new title to her many...

[SVPete]

You got kids.. do yourself and them a favor, do NOT post pictures of the little ones.

Given several DU members predilections, ceasing mention of them would be even more wise.

[GOBUCKS]

There was just a single reason that nutcase nadin kicked off this silly thread.

It was simply an excuse to write this: 

I run a paper for god sakes

[BattleHymn]

You got kids.. do yourself and them a favor, do NOT post pictures of the little ones.

For the average DUmmie that would involve a trip to Planned Parenthood and asking if they have any photos after the procedure.

[Big Dog]

For the average DUmmie that would involve a trip to Planned Parenthood and asking if they have any photos after the procedure.

Or this:

[Mr Mannn]

You realize that nads is preaching to a group of people who post every aspect of their lives for all the world to see. Every DUmmy who wallduded him/herself posted where they worked and boasted about the sabotage they did to their employers right at DU--in plain sight.

Does anyone think nad's advice will be heeded by the worst, most irresponsible people on the net?
I don't.

[Chris_]

I looked at that whitepages site.  Unless you want to pay to see what it actually says, it looks like bullshite.

[Skul]

Teh gNads wasn't dropped on her head after birth.
She was repeatedly thrown into the air.
Personally, I think the u-cord got hung up in the ceiling fan, and she was whipped around like a yoyo on a string.

[SVPete]

I looked at that whitepages site.  Unless you want to pay to see what it actually says, it looks like bullshite.

Yeah, my memory of looking at it once or twice was that if anyone wants useful information it's pay site. Which means that any DU member who wanted whatever info they have removed would have to pay to see whether it's worthwhile to have it removed.

It's very amusing to see this discussion happening among Libs & Progs who practically invented doxing people by way of the Internet.

[JakeStyle]

This idiot has put her and her husbands identities and home address and phone number out there for at least the last 4 ******* years, not to mention photos and video of her mom and other relatives.  Why in the hell would anyone think that she had a clue in regards to personal security?

[Carl]

I looked at that whitepages site.  Unless you want to pay to see what it actually says, it looks like bullshite.

Plus to remove your name you have to register with your name and an email or use Facebook.
In other words you have to put more info into a database that could be hacked.

[JakeStyle]

I looked at that whitepages site.  Unless you want to pay to see what it actually says, it looks like bullshite.

It looks like it was set up to trap stupid people who are worried about their online behavior.

[JohnnyReb]

Ever since seeing this headline, I've been checking my zipper several times a day. That's the only barn door I worry about.

[GOBUCKS]

You have to give the nutcase credit.

Unlike any other DUmmy, when she starts a thread she'll hang around for days, replying to every comment, hoping to start a fight with someone.

On most of her threads, at least a third of the replies will be from her, and a some of them are pure nutcase nadin:

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 11:15 PM
nadinbrzezinski (141,305 posts)
86. Because ID thieves really do not go deeper than that generally speaking

But as they say. YMWV

And this is just getting a dobbie, not going to prevent a really committed person from well stealing the crown jewels. I made it quite clear thank you very much.

[BattleHymn]

Ever since seeing this headline, I've been checking my zipper several times a day. That's the only barn door I worry about.

We need a picture of the bald dwarf's head superimposed over Uncle Sam on the classic "I Want You" poster.  I Want You To Keep Your Barn Door Closed!

Nads just doesn't seem to be satisfied with only looking like Ben Franklin anymore.

[obumazombie]

coach franksolich's cousin nadin refuses to capitalize God.
I have always posited atheists who claim to not believe in God cannot keep his name out of their mouths and minds.

[FlippyDoo]

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 12:34 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,278 posts)

Some barn doors you might want to close like right now (internet security)

First off, google yourself, your name and city. If you pop up at the White Pages, remove yourself

https://support.whitepages.com/hc/en-us/articles/203263794-Remove-my-listing-from-Whitepages-

Second... how many of you are on Facebook? I see hands... many... ok, ok, put them down.

Nads is seeing hands. Is it her hands? Is she hallucinating? Has she drank some of UndergroundPanther's left over remote-viewing organic pineapple juice? This sounds like a hard hitting news story.

TRAINED HYSTERIAN WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING HAS SEEN HER HANDS!!!

or

THE STRAIN OF THE SELFLESS BATTLE TO PROTECT THE SECURITY OF OTHERS RESULTS IN THE TRAINED HYSTERIAN WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING SUFFERING HALLUCINATION!!!

or

THE MIRACLE ELIXER: HAVE A SIP OF ORGANIC PINEAPPLE JUICE AS A WORLD-REKNOWNED TRAINED HYSTERIAN TAKES YOU ON A REMOTE TOUR OF EVERYTHING!!!

Okay. Maybe the last one is more of a sales pitch.

[Skul]

Hands up, don't shoot.

[BattleHymn]

Hands up, don't shoot.

You welcome too

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy SheilaT is treading on thin ice. Fireworks could erupt at any time.

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 04:37 AM
Star Member SheilaT (18,855 posts)

I have a relatively low profile on line. I have a FB page, but with very high privacy settings.

BTW, what is a "dobbie"?

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:20 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,323 posts)
95. Dobberman

and your police department will talk to you, it is what they do, even if you do not know them.

They prefer to educate people than have to deal with an actual investigation, It is well, cheaper.

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 09:22 PM
Star Member SheilaT (18,855 posts)
99. Dobberman? I still don't know.

Unless you mean Doberman as in the kind of dog.

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 09:34 PM
nadinbrzezinski (141,323 posts)
100. That is exactly what I mean

It could get worst.