Even if you are a troll, everyone should have a fair opportunity to chat with the caster and all of his or her fans. In a cast and community where chat interaction is one of the most important qualities, it is important to be able to get in a chat room situation where you have at least get an opportunity to get your voice heard. The recent problems with the JTV chatrooms are quite bad, particularly when it comes to more populated casts.
The Internet is a scary place, and hacking tools are getting more and more sophisticated.Ok, lets face it. Ideally store your fictional narrative in you encrypted and backed-up password management program, but even on a photocopied sheet of paper is fine. Make it memorable.īut be sure to write down the details somewhere safe just in case you forget whether it was "ZitPop" or "Acne Acres". So instead of having a grandfather named "John" you might have been raised by "Grandpa Moonshine" and your high school's mascot was the "Flaming Liverwursts" who rocked out to "Dread Zepplin and His Orc Estra", who regularly performed for the students of "ZitPop" elementary. One way to do this is to create a fictional life for yourself. The secret to dealing with these traps is to never answer them honestly. In the long run, these sorts of "security questions" actually lead to more insecurity. How many high school mascots were there in your home town, after all?
But even if you are an average semi-anonymous internet user, that sort of information is not hard to dig up with a little bit of prying into social media and maybe some trial and error. Particularly if you are a much-written-about celebrity - that data is probably just a one-minute google search away. Just how secure is a long password like "Th1s^IS-!MY-$3CuR3-P455" if all it takes for a hacker to reset it is knowing that your high school's mascot was a "Tiger" and that your grandfather's name was "John", or that you went to "Riverdale" elementary school and your favorite artist is "Elvis"? I prefer to call these "insecurity questions" - the stupid bits of personal trivia that sites make you give them that you need to answer to reset your password. So far it seems as if this is not the result of a wholesale core failure in any particular online service - but rather a targeted attack with the hackers brute-force guessing passwords, and / or manually guessing the "security questions" attached to the hacked accounts. Internet security is making big news again this week - with dozens of celebrities having their online accounts hacked, and a multitude of very private photos being leaked online as a result by scummy picture traders.
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