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Reduce the chances of your accounts being hacked

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Use different email addresses for each of your services. That way if one of your email addresses is compromised, the rest are relatively safe.

How to go about this? The simplest route: use a service like SimpleLogin.io to generate unique email addresses for each of your accounts.

More complex but more flexible: get your own domain. If you own a domain you can create as many email addresses as you like. For instance, by owning TonysTakeOnTech.com, I “own” all the email addresses associated with it, from [email protected] to [email protected] and everything in between. If you get an external email provider like FastMail.com, you can then set up your DNS to use fastmail’s email servers and deliver all that email to you. It’s more complex than SimpleLogin.io but it’s ALL under your control.

And if you take either of these approaches be sure to get and use a password manager!

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If you do nothing else, use a security conscious DNS

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The easiest way to protect yourself from malware etc is to use a DNS provider like quad9.net or nextdns.io. They filter all hostname requests thru databases they maintain and WON’T LET YOU go to a known bad host by just not resolving that hostname! Please, for your own sake, do it now.

I won’t go into details about DNS…if you need more info check https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/

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