Chapter 29
Daily prevention, written as a list you can finish
What you'll get from this chapter: A short daily routine covering accounts, the phone bill, and one other person in your home, so the habits in this book actually stick.
In this chapter
- Words in this chapter
- Your steps
The phone settings are in the next chapter, Lock the device itself. This list is the rest of the habit: your accounts, your bill, and one other person in your home.
Use an authenticator application or a for instead of text-message codes on email, banking, and cryptocurrency. Two-factor authentication means a second proof, beyond the password, before a sign-in is accepted. Put unique passwords in a . A password manager is an application that creates and stores a different long password for every site. Do not store or photographs of identity documents in the camera roll.
Turn off Bluetooth and location when you are not using them. On many phones you can check whether your calls are being forwarded by dialing *#21# (star, pound, two, one, pound). If forwarding is on and you did not set it, call your carrier. Review the phone bill and set a fraud alert with the credit bureaus if your identity documents have ever leaked. Teach this list to one other person in your household. A scam that fails with you often moves to them.
One chapter left: the settings that lock the phone itself.
Words in this chapter
- . A second proof at sign-in, after the password. A stronger second proof is an authenticator application, a , or a . A text-message code is a weak second proof.
- . An application that creates and stores a different long password for every account, so you only have to remember one master password.