{"id":1948,"date":"2011-03-13T23:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2011-03-13T23:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:50:53","slug":"dont-get-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2011\/03\/dont-get-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then a new Google feature comes along that I feel the need to blog about instead of just sharing the announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/18209262016040228319\">in Reader<\/a>. The feature that I&#8217;m writing about today isn&#8217;t really flashy or magical, but it&#8217;s incredibly important, and it applies to everyone. It&#8217;s not just for geeks. In some ways, it&#8217;s especially not just for geeks.<\/p>\n<p>Please take 15 minutes of your time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/accounts\/bin\/answer.py?answer=180744\">enable 2-step verification in your Google account<\/a>. This is time well-spent. It makes it much harder for someone who is not you to access your account and do nasty things like tricking your friends into sending money to a scammer. This is especially important if you use the same password on multiple services like Facebook and Twitter or your school email, which you totally shouldn&#8217;t do by the way, but I know many people do.<\/p>\n<p>Please enable this feature on your own account, and you bonus points if you help friends or family members enable it on theirs.<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, remember to <a href=\"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/04\/crashplan\/\">back up your data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then a new Google feature comes along that I feel the need to blog about instead of just sharing the announcement in Reader. The feature that I&#8217;m writing about today isn&#8217;t really flashy or magical, but it&#8217;s incredibly important, and it applies to everyone. It&#8217;s not just for geeks. In some ways, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2011\/03\/dont-get-hacked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t get hacked!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}