Problems with setting up new Apple I-phone

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14. secrets and passwords and email servers!

Just a reminder that this might not be a great idea if whatever holds your email is not secure! It's a gold mine for any hackers that get access to your email.

If your "passwords" email folder is only saved on your local computer, that's probably ok (especially if your computer's disk is encrypted). But ... if your email is in the cloud (google, microsoft, yahoo, whatever) it's almost certainly *not* encrypted. And it's at risk of being scooped up by hackers/anonymous/NSA/China/disgruntled-employees/whatever.

Of course, if it's only saved on your local computer, then you need to be sure to have backups in case the computer's disk dies. And those backups should be encrypted as well!

Hope this makes sense, security is hard.