Christophe Veltsos is an expert on computers and networks, but he’s far more paranoid using them than most of the novices among us. Sort of like a NASCAR driver putzing around in the slow lane like a stereotypical old lady.
The Minnesota State University assistant professor has a separate computer to check his bank account. Uses a special program to quarantine and open suspicious links. Has a thin plastic film he puts on his laptop that makes the screen appear darkened when viewed from the side to maintain his privacy.
And he is dumbfounded by all the information people put on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
“You shouldn’t put anything on there you wouldn’t want the whole world to know,” he says, and that includes someone who knows a clever way to rip you off.
Maybe he’s just paranoid, or maybe he knows something we don’t.
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