Are you savvy online?

[Slab]

Read the John Terry burglary case is in court at the moment (the one where he basically advertised online that his house was empty for a few days and what his house looked like etc) and wondered if you consider your online activity is savvy enough to protect yourself?

(of course no one deserves to be robbed, that’s not what this is about)

I’m sure a determined thief could find out oodles about any one of us but some folks actions do mean the thief doesn’t actually have to be determined at all as many state quite openly on social media and forums about their hols and other things

 

[Dando]

When we go away my girls are told not to put anything on unsocial media for this very reason

 

[Tashyboy]

Me sister went away for two weeks jols. Her daughter advertised on facebook where and how long they had gone for. Me mum went mental.

 

[chrisd]

I can't understand anyone announcing their away plans to the world either before they go, or while their away??

 

[Hacker Khan]

By the number of posts asking if the obviously fake Chinese website selling the latest Callaway driver for 150 quid is legit then some golfers seem not to be that savvy.

I think it is a generational thing, youngsters see sharing everything as the norm nowadays, where as oldies are a lot more private. I will post on Facebook about a holiday as I only have a very limited number of friends on there, I won't on Twitter where anyone can see it. But plenty of 'celebrities' post on Instagram where they are in the world all the time.

 

[Yant]

Well, i've recently performed a complete review of my Facebook profile to ensure that no one other than those i have accepted as my 'friends' can see any information (posts, pictures etc) about me.

I've also (at the request of my wife) stopped posting any pictures of our son on Facebook. Quite rightly, once you upload something to social media like that, it's out there.

If you 'check-in' on Facebook to tell everyone that you are not home and your profile is open for anyone to see, then you are asking for burglary.

 

[Rooter]

I have read stories of home insurance not paying out due to family plastering social media that they are on their 'holibobs'

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

I have read stories of home insurance not paying out due to family plastering social media that they are on their 'holibobs'

I think using that word is enough to mean you should be uninsured

 

[Rooter]

I think using that word is enough to mean you should be uninsured

That was kind of my point...

 

[Kellfire]

Read the John Terry burglary case is in court at the moment (the one where he basically advertised online that his house was empty for a few days and what his house looked like etc) and wondered if you consider your online activity is savvy enough to protect yourself?

(of course no one deserves to be robbed, that’s not what this is about)

I’m sure a determined thief could find out oodles about any one of us but some folks actions do mean the thief doesn’t actually have to be determined at all as many state quite openly on social media and forums about their hols and other things

So you want us to tell you on here, a public forum, if we're good at protecting ourselves from cyber-related crime?

You planning some robberies, Mr Slab?

 

[drdel]

Openly 'publicising' anything about yourself is just plan daft. It does not time-elapse.

'Celebrities' who crave attention and inform the world of their whereabouts are idiots

 

[davidy233]

Plenty of threads on here over the years of 'I'm off to St Andrews next week' or similar

 

[Slab]

So you want us to tell you on here, a public forum, if we're good at protecting ourselves from cyber-related crime?

You planning some robberies, Mr Slab?

Call it a public service

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[philly169]

surprised JT didn't have major security systems in place

 

[Hacker Khan]

Openly 'publicising' anything about yourself is just plan daft. It does not time-elapse.

'Celebrities' who crave attention and inform the world of their whereabouts are idiots

I suspect Mark Zukerberg whilst he is driving his solid gold car and living in a his solid gold house counting his billions may slightly disagree with that statement. Also plenty of very successful people do just that on LinkedIn, in fact that is how a lot of recruitment goes on nowadays.

 

[Rooter]

Also plenty of very successful people do just that on LinkedIn, in fact that is how a lot of recruitment goes on nowadays.

But typically, they are on business and the family will be at home...

 

[BubbaP]

I often make a judgement on whether a site really needs to know my date of birth, often concluding no and put something else in.

 

[Khamelion]

I can never understand the posts on Facebook or Twitter, that go along the lines of, "First pint in the airport, two weeks of sun, sangria and arguing with the missus", and the obligatory photos of some short wearing white legged buffoon grinning inanely for a photo with his missus, who has the look on her face worrying if the back door got locked.

 

[ScienceBoy]

What is this internet you speak of?

Bah this tech, I will never get it at all.

 

[Slime]

I can never understand the posts on Facebook or Twitter, that go along the lines of, "First pint in the airport, two weeks of sun, sangria and arguing with the missus", and the obligatory photos of some short wearing white legged buffoon grinning inanely for a photo with his missus, who has the look on her face worrying if the back door got locked.

Is that a euphemism .