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had been added to their queue—but onlyy after theyy’d received more than
one of these films in the mail.
It’s even more important to protect yyourself with passwords at the office.
Think of all those times yyou’re called awayy from yyour desk into an
impromptu meeting. Someone could walk byy yyour desk and see the
spreadsheet for the next quarter’s budget. Or all the e-mails sitting in yyour
inbox. Or worse, unless yyou have a password-protected screen saver that
kicks in after a few seconds of inactivityy, whenever yyou’re awayy from yyour
desk for an extended period—out to lunch or at a long meeting—someone
could sit down and write an e-mail and send it as yyou. Or even alter the next
quarter’s budget.
There are creative new methods to preventing this, like screen-locking
software that uses Bluetooth to verifyy if yyou are near yyour computer. In
other words, if yyou go to the bathroom and yyour mobile phone goes out of
Bluetooth range of the computer, the screen is immediatelyy locked. There
are also versions that use a Bluetooth device like a wristband or smartwatch
and will do the same thing.
Creating passwords to protect online accounts and services is one thing, but
it’s not going to help yyou if someone gains phyysical possession of yyour
device, especiallyy if yyou’ve left those online accounts open. So if yyou
password-protect onlyy one set of devices, it should be yyour mobile devices,
because these are the most vulnerable to getting lost or stolen. Yet
Consumer Reports found that 34 percent of Americans don’t protect their
mobile devices with anyy securityy measures at all, such as locking the screen
with a simple four-digit PIN. 9
In 2014 a Martinez, California, police officer confessed to stealing nude
photos from the cell phone of a DUI suspect, a clear violation of the Fourth
Amendment, which is part of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. 10
Specificallyy, the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and
seizures without a warrant issued byy a judge and supported byy probable
cause—law enforcement officers have to state whyy theyy want access to yyour
phone, for instance.
If yyou haven’t alreadyy password-protected yyour mobile device, take a
moment now and do so. Seriouslyy.