03-12-2007, 01:10 PM
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Email accounts can be a bit too informative.
Never use your ISP address.
And guard against those which ask too much
about you.
For example, you have a yahoo account.
So you think you are protected...
yah.
You have picked a name like Flower to protect
your identity...
and I get a message from <Brittany Livack>Floweryahoo.com.
I can use white pages, google, zabasearch to learn that
Brittany Livack lives at 1406 New York Avenue, Brooklyn.
Real 'security', huh?
Better you go to somewhere like goowy which never
asks you for your real name so doesn't have it.
Get your kids this kind of 'blank' email address.
If your kids already have those 'popular' ones...have
him or her email only those they like or trust with
the new account, and leave the other alone.
If your child has joined anything using that popular
account, that means that to get information the
child has to go to the popular.
Teach your child to delete unread anything s/he
doesn't recognise.
Teach it to yourself.
Any name you don't know, even if it says...
"The information you asked for"
or
"Special Gift for..."
delete unread.
Popular email addresses become spam boxes.
Let them become spam boxes.
Teach your child to use the safe account...
and you do it as well.
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Last edited by kaylar; 03-12-2007 at 01:15 PM.
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