Glenys Hanson

Salut Michel,

Et ceci, est-ce vous ?

Hi Matt,

That's a very interesting site but its main objective, I quote, is:

"Here are some examples of the kinds of adversaries that may pose a threat to your digital privacy and security:

1. U.S. government agents that follow laws which limit their activities
2. U.S. government agents that are willing and able to operate without legal restrictions
3. Foreign governments
4. Civil litigants who have filed or intend to file a lawsuit against you
5. Companies that store or otherwise have access to your data
6. Individual employees who work for those companies
7. Hackers or organized criminals who randomly break into your computer, or the computers of companies that store your data
8. Hackers or organized criminals that specifically target your computer or the computers of the companies that store your data
9. Stalkers, private investigators or other private parties who want to eavesdrop on your communications or obtain access to your machines

This guide focuses on defending against threats from the first adversary — government agents that follow the law — but the information herein should also provide some help in defending against the others." (My numbering and text in bold.)

But as a very unimportant woman who is not a US citizen and doesn't have "sensitive data", it's adverseries 5 and 7 that worry me.

I don't imagine anyone is out to get me or the sites I run personally, it's the random attacks of bots that I fear - one of my sites (when I was not admin) was hacked twice. Once with scenes of violence which upset a number of users. I already follow the sensible advice https://ssd.eff.org/ recommends about Passwords.  However, my Moodle site is regularly subject to "brute force" attacks - though don't they get anywhere. (My admin name and password are not "admin" .)

Am I just a nervous nelly?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Matt and everybody,

I'm a little worried about this sort of thing too.

I've signed up to Taco and Wot. But I don't know if I'm leaping out of the frying pan into the fire.

Do you know?

Cheers,

Glenys

Et moi je préfère voir les "vrais" gens avec leurs "vrais" visages.

Malgré vos efforts Joseph et Mary, je saurais vous reconnaître dans la rue.

Cheers,

Glenys

P.S. J'ai fait une recheche Google pour des images : "Robert Hadman" mais je crois que celle-ci n'est pas vous :

Hi Paul,

I'll second Don, and say that Dokeos not Moodle is probably what you need. I left Dokeos for Moodle 8 years ago because I didn't just want to put up content and tests. But if that's what you do want, Dokeos is much quicker to get your head around: took me about 3 hours. It's no doubt got a bit more complex since then but I imagine with your background, it wouldn't be take you much more time. That is just not true for Moodle: took me months even with my familiarity with other Learning Management Systems - I'd tried WebCT before Dokeos.

Dokeos also has a community of helpful and dedicated folks - just like the people here.

Cheers,

Glenys