David Sheeks

Facebook has never been one to play nicely with its users' security.  Since its inception it has been notorious for changes and "feature" additions that ran contrary to the chosen security settings of its users.  While you may have your Facebook virtually locked down, every new feature carries the risk of displaying more of your information to the public--until you find and eliminate said new feature, at least. The newest unexpected change is in your Facebook personal email settings.  Instead of your normal default email address showing in your contact information page, Facebook apparently wants your "@facebook.com" email address to show instead.  While many readers may be asking, "Wait, I have a Facebook email address?" the folks over at Facebook have been pushing the idea of getting you away from your gmail, hotmail and other addresses and trying to get their users on the Facebook email service instead. For the overwhelming majority of folks

A few months back I was in a public library when I heard two young adults talking as they sat near one of the public computers.  "What's your password again?" the first person asked.  "starburst123," she replied.  "It's what I use for everything." While I had no intention of using this sensitive information I had just overheard, there are many unscrupulous users who would have a heyday with such information.  In a digital world, one's entire life is online--your bank account, your personal history, your conversations and emails--all of it protected by that small string of characters that is your password. Users are being told to make their passwords unique, long, and complex.  The harder it is to guess, the safer you supposedly are.  But a unique string of letters isn't enough--we're now being told to put as many symbols and special characters in our passwords as possible.  Instead of a password like "ilikecomputers,"  you