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This seems misleading. Good security jerks know that there isn't a rule that works for everything. This list might be a little misleading to the non-security jerks.

For example, 'software updates' are half the battle, but the other half of the battle is configuring your software to be more secure (browser sandboxing, NoScript, pop-up blockers, malware detectors, OS hardening).

All the rest of the security concerns are authentication-based, but there are very few accounts that are important enough to need a secure account. Banks and money transfer services, business accounts (taxes, professional services, ebay/etsy merchants, etc), followed e-mail accounts, are probably the only really critical accounts most people have. You can hack my Facebook or my Huffington Post account; it doesn't really threaten my safety.

I think the one thing nobody does that would actually matter to them eventually is keep offline backups. Facebook might lose all your pictures and FB messages tomorrow. They have zero responsibility to keep that crap for you. If you do get hacked and someone deletes all your pictures, don't go crying to Facebook; they have enough problems.

At the end of the day, the biggest threat to your online safety in general is malware. Once malware is on your device it's game over.




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