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Maplestory Cyber Security Series – Part 4 of 4

Author duststar | 09.01.2010 | Category Cyber Security, MapleSEA

Continuing from this post.

Part 4 – Protecting your identity

1. Your presence on the Internet

a. Social websites
- Have 1 account to that caters to your private needs e.g. to find back your old friends, make new friends etc
- Have another account just for Maplestory if you are so serious about adding who you knew in the game to this social network

b. Forums, Blogs
- Have different accounts for different purposes e.g. 1 for private e-mails, 1 for engaging with unknown strangers (useful when in game people ask you for e-mail to send you things)
- If you want to go around forums, blogs etc and paste your e-mail address, be prepared to get spam. So, use a separate e-mail for such purposes.

2. Information control

a. Avoid sharing too much personal information.

b. Trust no one online unless you SEE them in person (Not through web cam). EVERYTHING can be impersonated.

c. Check your own presence on the Internet. See how much are you exposed. See if anyone else is impersonating you on social websites.

Thanks for reading. This is the end of the 4-part “Maplestory Cyber Security Series”. Hope it helps you in one way or another.

.duststar