that I cannot stress enough, and we stress this every time we talk about security, good passwords are important. So please do not use ABC123, I am God, or anything like that because the people are going to guess them. Try to use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols because the better the password, the more secure your system is going to be. Another one is if you share the computer, set up a guest account on your machine so other people can't tinker with your settings or change security or install things without your permission. The reason for this is you don't want people digging through and changing firewall settings or installing that update that you said, I just don't want to install it right now. You don't want them to be able to reboot your machine. There's a lot of things that you can do and you can really lock down a guest account. So always use those, especially if you're going to be sharing your computer. Now Larry, let's talk about how Linux is set up in contrast (10/49)
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