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My journey to restoring my privacy (Part 1)

26 October, 2019 By Peter Harvey Leave a Comment

It is not until you have someone collect your information and then present to you how it could be used to compromise your life that you truly understand the threat we face to our identity just by participating on the internet. Now I was not compromised, however when I had a colleague “dox” me to […]

Filed Under: Privacy Tagged With: Communication, Email, Gmail, Privacy, Social Media

Positive verification. Why I don’t answer “unknown” numbers

6 June, 2018 By Peter Harvey Leave a Comment

I currently have a policy that I will NOT answer unknown numbers. That is to say phone calls from numbers that I have never received a call from before as well as those calls from blocked phone numbers. The reason is that I have no way of verifying who is calling me nor that they are from the company they say they are from.

Filed Under: Cyber Crime, Incident Response, Penetration Testing

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