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Cosmo Doing It’s Part In Educating The Masses

On the train to work yesterday I did a small amount of shoulder surfing of the passenger next to me who was reading the latest edition of the Australian Cosmopolitan magazine. After my eyes drifted away from the photoshoot of some drop-dead gorgeous girl asleep on a cloud of stark, white cotton sheets I realised that the article was all about “How to protect your identity whilst you sleep”. It was an article on the growing trends of identity theft, particularly in Australia.

The article discussed a number of topics broken down into a summary, the “Danger Zone”, and recommendations. The topics included online shopping, ebay (or other online bidding systems), phishing, and other miscellaneous activities that may disclose your personal information to foreign parties (such as, try to cover the pin-pad as much as possible at ATMs or EFTPOS terminals).

Good on ya Cosmo. I commend you for putting together an article on such an important issue, and one that you probably where aware most of your demographic did not know about.

Posted by Christian 20 December 2007


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