Your habits
Along with
information gathering, thieves will be looking at your habits. A
lot can be learned by when you are, and when you are not,
online. For this reason, you need to make sure that you never
appear online at the same time everyday. For instance, if are
online between the hours of six and eight in the morning, then
offline until six in the evening until about ten, and you do
this everyday, they know that you are at work – away from home –
between the hours of eight and six each day. They know that it
is probably a good time to break into your home. They also know
that the hours you are online is a good time to be looking for a
way to get into your system, because it will be turned on and
connected to the Internet at those times. You need to vary your
online and offline times as much as you can. If you use instant
messengers, do not allow them to automatically sign on when you
connect to the Internet.
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