397 | Securing Your Financial Life

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: cybersecurity, password managers, two-factor authentication, safely navigating the internet, and more hot-seat questions!

Have you ever considered how secure your finances are in the modern world? Within the cyber-dominated world we are all living in, it can be tough to stay on top of updates, passwords, and other necessary resources that help us keep our digital footprints safe. Well in order to provide you all with some high-level tips and tricks to stay ahead of the curve, we decided to have long time listener and cybersecurity expert Tom on the show this week to discuss how you can secure your online life. Keeping yourself secure and your assets safe is one of the best ways to ensure a progressive future as you move forward in the digital era while on your FI journey!

You can find the link to Tom's Facebook thread here!

Timestamps:

1:44 - Introduction
2:52 - Passwords and Password Managers
13:22 - Two-Factor Authentication
22:03 - Email Links
28:38 - Cyber Financial Risks
34:57 - Surfing The Web Safely
39:14 - Antivirus Software
43:57 - Public Wifi, Back-ups, and High-Level Tips
55:18 - Look Out For Elderly Loved Ones
58:38 - Tom Takes On The Hot Seat
75:01 - Conclusion

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Alright, hello and welcome to Choose a Fire. Today on the show we have a long time Choose a Fire
0:04.6	Community member, Tom, who is a Cybersecurity expert, a former pro poker player, and a former
0:10.8	federal law enforcement officer who is currently in the private sector doing investigations into the
0:16.3	world of cryptocurrency. So he has an amazing background for a topic that I've wanted to do for a
0:22.0	very long time, which is securing your online life and ultimately securing your financial life.
0:28.0	Right, we live our entire lives at this point, our entire financial lives online, and we need to
0:34.0	make some common sense positive changes to secure those lives. And that's the beautiful thing
0:40.3	about having experts in our community, having this be the ultimate crowdsource personal
0:44.6	finance show is that we have someone like Tom, who, as I said, is a former federal law enforcement
0:50.6	officer who is truly an expert in this. So really excited to dive into this. Welcome to Choose a Fire.
0:57.0	You're listening to Choose a Fire Radio. The blueprint for financial independence lives here.
1:12.4	If you're looking to unlock this secrets to financial independence and early retirement,
1:17.3	you're in the right place. Stay tuned and join a community of like-minded people who are
1:22.4	getting all things to do and taking control of their lives in the pursuit of financial independence.
1:28.4	Choose a fire. Your home for financial independence online.
1:44.4	All right, Tom. Welcome to Choose a Fire.
1:47.2	Thanks, Brad. Glad to be here. Like you said, I've been a long time listener, but I would be
1:51.7	remiss if I didn't start this with how you doing, buddy. Oh, man, I am doing quite well. Yeah,
2:00.0	yeah, I miss that. That's one of the things he missed from, obviously, Jonathan has been an
2:04.0	amazing co-host for so long. And yeah, I can't exactly say that to myself. So yeah, thank you.
2:09.7	Yeah, you guys had a great chemistry. And the first time I listened to an episode without him,
2:14.7	that was just the one funny quirk at the beginning that I thought was just funny that was missing.
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