I’m always wary of signing into websites from public terminals; you never know if there is a key logger or device running in the background to grab your login information. I’m not so worried about credit card #s, or even of identity theft but I’m worried about my Google account and my Twitter account!
My Google account covers so many things now that it would be an epic tragedy if it were ever compromised. My email, calendar, blogger account and a variety of smaller things are all tied into a single login (cleverly, I have my AdSense and FiD feeds on another Google account). It is quite scary the number of things that we funnel through Google now. I certainly would not want to lose my primary account.
I’m also afraid to lose my Twitter account, not because it’s important to me but because I have such an awesome nickname. Yes that is vanity.
To hopefully prevent such a thing from happening, yet have access to email and Twitter on the road, I’ve created a second GMail account which has a replica of all my mail in my primary GMail account. Plus, I signed up for a service where you can tweet by mail. All of this preparation is great, but now I just need to get internet access when I’m travelling!
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