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      <description>No software to buy. Work through these in order and you will have closed the gaps that account for most real-world compromises.</description>
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      <description>The one category where what you did beforehand matters far more than anything you can do afterwards.</description>
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      <description>Bad spelling stopped being the giveaway years ago. These are the checks that still work.</description>
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      <title>Free vs paid security software: an honest comparison</title>
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      <description>The gap is not really about detection. It is about what else is in the box, and whether you want those things.</description>
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      <title>Phone security without the theatre</title>
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      <description>Phones are attacked differently from computers, so the advice that works is different too - and it mostly is not about installing a scanner.</description>
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      <title>Speeding up a slow computer, honestly</title>
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      <description>Most slowness has three or four ordinary causes. None of them need software that promises to make your PC fast again.</description>
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      <title>Setting up a password manager properly</title>
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      <category>Do this now</category>
      <description>The highest-value hour in personal security. Here is the order that avoids the usual mistakes.</description>
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      <description>Order matters. Doing these in the wrong sequence lets the attacker undo your work while you are still doing it.</description>
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      <category>Maintenance</category>
      <description>The one device every other device depends on, and the one almost nobody has opened since it was installed.</description>
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      <title>Shopping and paying online without drama</title>
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      <category>Do this now</category>
      <description>Fraud protection is mostly about which payment method you use and what you check before you type a card number.</description>
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      <title>Wiping a device properly before you sell it</title>
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      <description>Deleting files does not remove them. Here is what actually does, on each kind of device.</description>
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