[Noone2014]

I'm not very good at keeping things in my head and I want to write it all down much easier. I don't want to keep a diary in my room because mum likes to go through my stuff. I don't want to keep it on the computer either for the same reasons. I looked up on the web and found online diary just wondering if anyone knew how secure they are, I don't want anyone to be able to read it, I just want to write down everything in my head without worrying if my mum will find it and get upset. I don't want anyone to see it.

[smoothy]

Personally... If you want private the one you physically write in is best... you can never be 100% sure of anyplace online for something like that. There are a lot of technical reasons for it... plus if it ever gets sold to another owner in the future they could always change the terms at any point... they own the site , they get to make the rules.

[Noone2014]

Personally... If you want private the one you physically write in is best... you can never be 100% sure of anyplace online for something like that. There are a lot of technical reasons for it... plus if it ever gets sold to another owner in the future they could always change the terms at any point... they own the site , they get to make the rules.

Ok thanks wasn't sure.

[smoothy]

I understand your reservations for keeping one at home... but I've been enough of a computer geek since college (33 years) I can name dozens of reasons not to trust anything like that to be anywhere online.

[Noone2014]

I understand your reservations for keeping one at home... but I've been enough of a computer geek since college (33 years) I can name dozens of reasons not to trust anything like that to be anywhere online.

Thanks will not bother with will just write in down thanks for the warning.

[smoothy]

At home you only have your mom and sister that might get it... online once a hacker or a bot got it (due to a security lapse)... it could end up anywhere. Even end up on Google searches... something dangerous if names, numbers or adresses might be in it.

Safest place is offline... and even better off any computer.

[Noone2014]

At home you only have your mom and sister that might get it... online once a hacker or a bot got it (due to a security lapse)... it could end up anywhere. Even end up on Google searches... something dangerous if names, numbers or adresses might be in it.

Safest place is offline... and even better off any computer.

Thanks I guess I'll just stick to pen and paper

[Appzalien]

There's always Winrar or the free 7Zip. You can password protect the compressed file so only you have access, extract it to update your journal adding pages you create with notepad or wordpad. First create a folder say 2014 and inside that 12 folders for each month as you create daily pages add them to the appropriate folder and compress the main 2014 folder with your password. Keep a running set, deleting the older versions as you create updated new ones. When the year is up start a 2015 folder and so on. Text files compress very well and the file should remain fairly small throughout the year.

[smoothy]

There's always Winrar or the free 7Zip. You can password protect the compressed file so only you have access, extract it to update your journal adding pages you create with notepad or wordpad. First create a folder say 2014 and inside that 12 folders for each month as you create daily pages add them to the appropriate folder and compress with your password. Keep a running set deleting the older versions as you create updated new ones. When the year is up start a 2015 folder and so on.

THose are easy to break... I have software that will brute force hack the password on either of those, its easy to use and a lot of people have it. In fact if a hacker (or anyone else) stumbles upon a password protected archive... it indicates there is something good inside and makes them REALLY want to find out what.

[Appzalien]

Brute force password hacks only work well on simple passwords, and besides I don't think his Mom is going to be that sophisticated. A lengthy password with a mix of small and large letters, numbers and symbols can take so long to crack its ridiculous.

[smoothy]

Brute force password hacks only work well on simple passwords, and besides I don't think his Mom is going to be that sophisticated. A lengthy password with a mix of small and large letters, numbers and symbols can take so long to crack its ridiculous.

Maybe a few years back... todays computers will do it in a fraction of the time. The ones I have will get those too... passord character count is what runs up the time... the longer the more time it takes.

[smoothy]

THe ones I use get those too... todays computers handle magnitudes more operations per second than a relatively few years ago. What slows down the process if the LONG passwords.. the more characters the longer it takes to find them.

Moms not the only risk...but friends that use the machine and any hackers that have acccess via malware.

Its not ureasonable paranoia...a lot of this stuff actually happens all the time. Often enough you don't want to assume is not going to happen to me.

[smoothy]

Just for a perspective... I used to have a website... no e-commerce at all on it. My software was blocking over 5,000 attempts a day to hack into it (according to logs) mostly from Russia and China... none of then were DNS type attacks.