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To: Spots who wrote (573)	10/30/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110648

You know there is another risk to your data. When you take a computer in for service work. What is stopping a tech from grabbing a copy of your Users file in Netscape (it contains all your e-mail & bookmarks, cookies) or even worse, they grab your Quicken files on your HD. There are so many password cracker programs on the net, some bone head making 8 bucks an hour fixing computers may be a hacker / cracker in the evenings.....playing with data he/she stole from your computer while it was in for service work. And you would never know they copied data from your computer.. Is Quicken a safe place to store your credit card numbers?