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XKCD cartoon reminds users to log out for better security

Graham Cluley @ 3:12 pm, April 22, 2013

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It’s disturbing just how many people seem to leave their computers permanently logged in to online services. An XKCD cartoon teaches us all an important security lesson.

Read more in my article on Sophos’s Naked Security blog.

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• Data loss
• Encryption
• Naked Security
• Privacy

• #authorization
• #cartoon
• #Full Disk Encryption
• #xkcd

Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and is the co-host of the popular "The AI Fix" and "Smashing Security" podcasts. Follow him on Bluesky and Mastodon, or drop him an email.

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