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25 Skills Every Person Should Know: No.2 Protect Your Computer
By John F | July 16, 2008
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Popular Mechanics website has an interesting list of 25 Things Every Man Should Know. At number 2 is protect your computer, and number 16 is backing up data. Which to me is slightly odd that it is that high up the list, compared to say, changing oil on a car or manoeuvring a car out of a skid?
Out of the list of 25 things I should know I can honestly say I know 17. Which isn’t bad, but filleting a fish for me isn’t on my list of things to do before I’m 50.
What this list says is that because of the importance and impact computers have on our everyday lives, knowing how to protect and back up your computer data is a vital part of normal life. Also, for any female readers, yes I do also agree that the Popular Mechanics article should Read “25 Skills Every Person Should Know.”
However, how many people actually perform these essential tasks, is a worry as so many hackers and Internet fraudsters are having the time of their lives with so many easy targets out there.
It’s a list that has a lot of feedback, 160 comments when I last checked, and yes there are some weird entries on there, but ultimately having two computer related tasks on there does indicate that computer security is very important to all people who have computers, including the users like you and me and especially the hackers and fraudsters who want to steal your data.
Topics: Computer Security Usefulness |