Protecting your heart against the knaves of the internet

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Heartbleed and Yahoo! Mail DMARC problems all week, but I don’t like to act too quickly on internet panics. The 2YK virus passed me by without even a ripple in real life (although that was my first, biggest and best internet panic), and I’ve survived a few other things that turned out to be not such a big deal. I figured I’d wait until the weekend and change the passwords then, after the dust had settled.

Then, this morning, my e-mail stopped working.

So, instead of writing a proper blog post, I thought I’d share a few classic tips for internet security, and ask y’all what you are doing to protect your writing and your professional personas on the internet.

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