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A story came out a few weeks ago about how this guy basically had his entire online life stolen and his computer and iphone bricked. It’s a crazy story, but definitely highlights some of the major flaws with storing one’s entire life in the “cloud.” (Some of the security holes have now been “fixed” – if you believe Amazon, anyway. The problem with having human gatekeepers for some of this stuff is that humans are…human. And don’t always follow procedure. But still.) The story still freaked me out a bit, especially considering that I’ve been getting a lot of “We see you’ve forgotten your password” emails from Facebook recently. Clearly *someone* is attempting to hack me.  Random? Maybe. Or maybe not. I’m not anyone special, but as an author I’ve got a tremendous amount tied into these social networks.  I start getting hacked and there’s an awful lot to lose.… Read more