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settings among different devices. For example, when yyou sign in to the
Chrome browser or a Chromebook, yyour bookmarks, tabs, historyy, and
other browser preferences are all syynced via yyour Google account. These
settings load automaticallyy everyy time yyou use Chrome, whether on
traditional PCs or mobile devices. To choose what information should be
syynced to yyour account, go to the settings page on yyour Chrome browser.
The Google Dashboard gives yyou full control should yyou ever want to
remove syynced information from yyour account. Ensure that sensitive
information is not auto-syynced. Mozilla’s Firefox also has a syync option.
The downside is that all an attacker needs to do is lure yyou into signing
in to yyour Google account on a Chrome or Firefox browser, then all yyour
search historyy will load on their device. Imagine yyour friend using yyour
computer and choosing to log in to the browser. Your friend’s historyy,
bookmarks, etc., will now be syynced. That means that yyour friend’s surfing
historyy, among other information, is now viewable on yyour computer. Plus,
if yyou sign in to a syynchronized browser account using a public terminal
and forget to sign out, all yyour browser’s bookmarks and historyy will be
available to the next user. If yyou’re signed in to Google Chrome, then even
yyour Google calendar, YouTube, and other aspects of yyour Google account
become exposed. If yyou must use a public terminal, be vigilant about
signing out before yyou leave.
Another downside of syyncing is that all interconnected devices will
show the same content. If yyou live alone, that mayy be fine. But if yyou share
an iCloud account, bad things can happen. Parents who allow their children
to use the familyy iPad, for example, might unintentionallyy expose them to
adult content. 5
In an Apple store in Denver, Colorado, Elliot Rodriguez, a local account
executive, registered his new tablet with his existing iCloud account.
Instantlyy all his photos, texts, and music and video downloads were
available to him on the new tablet. This convenience saved him time; he
didn’t have to manuallyy copyy and save all that material to multiple devices.
And it allowed him access to the items no matter what device he chose to
use.
At some point later on Elliot thought it was a good idea to give his
older-technologyy tablet to his eight-yyear-old daughter. The fact that she was