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Comment by ricg

For those who scan and file digitally:

Are you worried about data security/malware at all? How do you protect your data?

Maybe I listened to too many Darknet Diaries episodes, but recently I've been thinking more about how to protect my personal digital documents. All it takes is one bad link or fishing email. Once a virus/trojan/ransomware is on the system, the attacker has a lot of leverage with everything scanned and neatly filed.

My idea is to use a separate laptop for archiving digital documents that is never connected to the Internet. Still a thought experiment at this point so I can't speak to the practicality (backups, etc.) of this yet.

parent ricg 5 years ago

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