Why you want to make daily backups
Theft, equipment crashing, data loss
- Business Woman's Laptop Stolen, Terrifying statistics on data theft ought to convince you
- Did you back up your data? "Umm I don't do that" – Carrie from "Sex and the City" loses her data, including such memorable lines as "Just hang in there, sugar", and "Are you a PC user? You're not compatible, " and, "there was a mean little man who popped up, and he had x's where his eyes should be." See also what it sounds like when your hard drive crashes: The "BEEP BEEP BEEP OF DEATH”, Hard Drive Failure Rates Q1 2017
Repent, Repent! Or, what you can do about it
- Learn Windows 7 – System Backup, Time Machine – Mac OS X Leopard , or how to make daily backups
- The Best Portable Hard Drive, explains why for portable hard drives I use the 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim
Why you want to use complicated passwords and a password manager
- Your password is easy to crack, The 500 worst passwords of all time, Anatomy of a hack: even your 'complicated' password is easy to crack