Basic Steps on How to Protect Your Privacy

• Reveal less personal or identifying information on your webspace (e.g. home address, telephone number, etc.): your friends and family already know this information, do you really want to give it to strangers?
• Utilize “Stanford.Who” to control what information is shared with Stanford community members and what is shared with the outside world.
• Specify access permissions to “Read-Only” when sharing files.
• When using cluster computers:
  - be mindful not to give sensitive information (which may be cached via cookies for example);
  - close browser windows;
  - make sure to log out from MacSamson sessions;
  - make sure to log out of PC-Leland.
• Recognize that email is not a secure or authenticated system: if you receive a strange message from a friend or stranger, realize that the message might not have been sent from the person listed as the sender.