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Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling?

Posted by Cliff on from the careful-where-you-browse dept.

AdEbh asks: "I was just listening an interesting article on a local radio station regarding computer security. In it a member from the AFP cybercrime unit mentioned that they are starting to see keylogger software installed on public access terminals, such as internet cafes. With friends & family overseas at the moment or soon to be what advice should I give them? Is this a real concern?"

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  1. Re:A tip by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HEY. I'm a SPY, you know,?? I'm wicked and cool, and the shit, I don't want my you know talk, sort of listened to. GET REAL BROW. It's where it's at.

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    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  2. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". by IWannaBeAnAC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, but "advice" is a noun, "advise" is a verb. Quite a difference: "advice" is something you give, "advise" is something you do.

  3. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". by FuzzzyLogik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    think about it.

    "what advice should i give them?" "what advise should i give them?"

    which one sounds correct? Yea.. good job, he was right, you're wrong.

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    Kyle
    http://www.unlogikal.net/
  4. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol, f00l

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  5. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". by FuzzzyLogik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i will repeat the statement i made in another branch of this thread.

    is give not a verb? So how is it that "advice to give" is not the correct form?

    so you're saying you need 2 verbs to say this? give is a verb, so "advice" is the noun, the thing you are giving. as such advice in my eyes appears to be the correct form of this, not advise. however i could be wrong, but that is my thinking on it.

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    Kyle
    http://www.unlogikal.net/
  6. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". by null+etc. · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    To state this explicitly for you:

    advise, verb: to give advice. The king advised me not to make rude comments about his wife.

    advice, noun: a recommendation or suggestion designed to aide. I took the king's advice, and made rude comments about his mother instead.

    advisement, noun: careful consideration, deliberation; OR the act or process of advising. "You did not take my request under advisement, so therefore I will execute you," said the King.