13 December 2009 - information security

In a world where your most dangerous data may be stolen by spammers if it has commercial value, or stolen and sent to Wikileaks if it has political value, or voluntarily posted to Facebook if it has personal value, information security is more important than ever.

1. Choose a paranoid anti-virus program. If it throws enough warnings, you’ll be reluctant to touch the computer.

2. Don’t back up. Extra copies create extra opportunities.

3. Encrypt your hard disk. Invent a secure password and don’t write it down. If you can’t recover your own data, maybe nobody else can either.