HW #6 Security procedures

My security practices for my computer are not what they should be I have a password to my laptop, but I rarely log out leaving it rather pointless to even have a password. I have a password for my Mason email which is my primary email account but that username and password is in the memory therefore anyone who logs onto my homepage can access my email yet again making it rather pointless to even pretend that I have any sort of “security” for my laptop. This may spawn from the fact that I have a horrible time remembering passwords, or that my family has never really had a tendancy to hide things from one another and have freely allowed each other to share computers therefore we leave them open with easy access for anyone who needs it. It also may come from the fact that I see no point in having a password because I feel as if, in that case that my laptop were stolen there is about a 10% chance of ever getting it back so I see no point in pissing the theif off even more. If they had the guts to lift a laptop (which I in NO WAY CONDONE.) they might as well get it’s full worth out of it because obviously they are either desperate or pathetic. Either way I’m not seeing my laptop anytime soon.

I do have a “Find My Mac” app on my phone and computer, meaning I can send a command to either my phone or laptop that makes an alarm go off on the computer, if the thief is attempting to use it. It will play a loud alarm, and you cannot turn it off unless you have the password. This could make a thief hesitate I suppose and possibly simply leave the laptop either where they found it or wherever the ended up trying to use it, but I feel as if this would do nothing to a person who knows the ins and outs of running and using a mac. A good hacker is a good hacker in the end, and no “app” or setting is going to stop them from getting a couple hundred for your mac at the local pawn shop if they can clean it up well enough.

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