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<blockquote data-quote="Zero Knowledge" data-source="post: 1034331" data-attributes="member: 57429">While it&#039;s good to cut down on online accounts and clutter my advice to people out there is to register a new email account like <a href="mailto:your.name@emailproviderofchoice.com">your.name@emailproviderofchoice.com</a> for every free and if you have the money paid email services. Do the same for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram &amp; LinkedIn, and for WhatApp &amp; Telegram usernames. You do not have to be active (some email services delete accounts after 6 months) but it stops name squatting and people impersonating you or doing something much worse with your identity.It&#039;s difficult to juggle accounts (password managers help) but data and your identity are king in today&#039;s world. I would much rather have done as much as I could and sign up for email accounts and services to protect my identity than nothing. Off course it&#039;s more attack surface but if you don&#039;t use it then you won&#039;t get hacked or even phishing emails, just keep 1 or 2 or 3 main accounts active. The problem is remembering or managing passwords but that&#039;s a solvable problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zero Knowledge, post: 1034331, member: 57429"] While it's good to cut down on online accounts and clutter my advice to people out there is to register a new email account like [EMAIL]your.name@emailproviderofchoice.com[/EMAIL] for every free and if you have the money paid email services. Do the same for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn, and for WhatApp & Telegram usernames. You do not have to be active (some email services delete accounts after 6 months) but it stops name squatting and people impersonating you or doing something much worse with your identity. It's difficult to juggle accounts (password managers help) but data and your identity are king in today's world. I would much rather have done as much as I could and sign up for email accounts and services to protect my identity than nothing. Off course it's more attack surface but if you don't use it then you won't get hacked or even phishing emails, just keep 1 or 2 or 3 main accounts active. The problem is remembering or managing passwords but that's a solvable problem. [/QUOTE]

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