{"id":6647,"date":"2009-07-30T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2009-07-30T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:56:16","slug":"how-safe-is-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/how-safe-is-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Safe is the Internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/track-your-finances-with-mint-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mint.com<\/a>, an online budget and financial planning site. Later, I received an email from my husband (yes we email each other, don&#8217;t laugh) that was titled &#8220;Just Say No to Mint!&#8221; He had serious concerns about giving our account info and passwords to an internet site. It seemed safe to me, but since he knows a lot more about internet security than I do, I have decided not to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>This exchange with my husband got me thinking about internet security in general. I have a blog, and I occasionally write about and post pictures of my children. Longtime readers know my geographical location, and many people know my first name.<\/p>\n<p>I have some friends who refuse to put any information about themselves on the internet, they don&#8217;t bank online, or even have a page on Facebook (gasp!). I have come to realize that many of my readers (almost half) do not have a blog of their own. I now wonder why I have so many readers who are nonbloggers, and if you are a nonblogger do you put other information about yourself on the internet in the form of online banking, bill pay, facebook, and other similar sites?<\/p>\n<p>I know many readers are hesitant to sign up for free offers because they do not like to give out their name and email address.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand? Do you feel the internet can be a safe place for your information? When you make an online transaction do you think your credit card number is protected? Have you ever been a victim of identity theft because of an internet transaction?<\/p>\n<p>I would love to discuss this topic with you, because it is something I think about on a daily basis and wonder, how much is too much?<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave a comment, but I have also opened up a <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theblogfrog.com\/psearch\/ViewThread.aspx?threadID=1497&amp;blogID=186052\" target=\"_blank\">discussion thread<\/a> in my forum because I am able to follow and respond quicker in the forum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hh_signature_green.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-506\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hh_signature_green.jpg\" alt=\"hh_signature_green\" width=\"163\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote a post about Mint.com, an online budget and financial planning site. Later, I received an email from my husband (yes we email each other, don&#8217;t laugh) that was titled &#8220;Just Say No to Mint!&#8221; He had serious concerns about giving our account info and passwords to an internet site. 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