Top 10 tips for keeping your private photos safe

Once upon a time, there was a man who could not repair computers. Later, his story became famous all over the world. This man was our great teacher Edison Chen. Teacher Chen devoted his life to photography and created countless works of art. However, these works finally came into being because the worker who helped Teacher Chen repair the computer was also a photography enthusiast... After Teacher Chen's story happened, it was said that the computer repair training class of Shandong Lanxiang Technical School was very popular for a while.

Six years later, Apple's iCloud was attacked, resulting in the leak of a large number of nude photos of Hollywood actresses. While admiring the photos, many players couldn't help but wonder: Sometimes you can't help but take some self-entertaining photos and videos with that person, but where can you put them safely?

With the popularity of smart phones and the rapid development of mobile Internet, mobile phones have become the main tool for a large number of young men and women to take private photos, and these photos are uploaded to online storage as soon as they are taken. Once the online disk account password is lost or leaked, the private photos and videos in the online disk are likely to be leaked.

Next, Brother Liang will show you his best tricks to safely store private photos (the tips are arranged from difficult to easy, and those who can do it easily are very powerful):

1. Make the password of the cloud disk where private photos are stored complicated. How complicated should the password be? It should be so complicated that your significant other cannot remember it even after reading it hundreds of times, and hackers cannot figure it out even after using tools for three years.

2. Have you heard of a skill called mosaic? If you really can't master this complex technical work, please skip to item 3.

3. Fuck the network disk, fuck the cloud. There are two risks when putting private photos in the cloud disk: first, the risk of the cloud disk server, such as Apple iCloud being hacked this time; second, the risk of password theft, if you have an unreliable friend. If you don't upload the photos, these risks are zero. Especially some mobile phones or some network disks have automatic upload or automatic backup functions, which are rogue functions, and Liang Ge never uses them.

4. It is best not to use your phone on the Internet and isolate it physically. Because even if you don't upload photos, hackers may still hack into your phone. The safest way is to buy a waterproof phone and soak it in a fish tank or bathtub when not in use.

5. Encrypt private photos in your phone. Currently, all major mobile phone security software have similar functions, which can encrypt private photos, private videos, private text messages and private files in your phone, and only pass the password to view them. But the question is, what if the security software itself is a rogue?

6. Don’t use your mobile phone to take pictures. Take out the digital camera you have hidden away in the bottom of your box. Don’t remember the digital camera? It is the thing we used to take pictures with our hands before our mobile phones had camera functions. Also, don’t use any advanced digital cameras with Internet access.

7. What should I do if the photo memory in my digital camera is full? No matter how many GB the memory card in your camera is, it will be full. When it is full, do not save it to your computer. Have you forgotten the story of Teacher Chen? Save it to a mobile hard drive, and be sure to use a computer that never goes online when saving.

8. Storing photos in a mobile hard drive also has risks. It is best to buy some extra memory cards for your camera. Whenever a memory card is full, take it out and immediately put it in a shoe box under the bed. When putting it in, pay attention to whether there is anyone around. Remember!

9. Compared with digital cameras, film cameras are safer. AUV, this thing is to waste film, but it can also train a few but fine shooting skills. In order to prevent the workers in the photo processing shop from being photography enthusiasts like the worker who repaired Mr. Chen's computer, it is best to buy your own processing equipment and process the photos at home. As for how to save photos, please refer to Article 6.

10. Finally, here is the ultimate method to ensure that you are absolutely safe. The ultimate method is: Don’t take pictures.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.