Thing is, there’s a whole bunch of other<\/em>\u00a0potentially dangerous situations\u00a0you should probably avoid when taking a #nofilter picture, and most of these are of way more concern than your fingerprints. Some of the\u00a0below, you may have already considered – and a few may be new to you. A couple of these may not even really qualify as selfies, but they’re still bad ideas and it won’t hurt to keep them in mind. Behold, the list of #selfiedoom:<\/p>\n It may be that\u00a0you’re not comfortable revealing your location on Instagram or Facebook, which is fine. You’ve taken precautions. You’ve switched off all the geotagging and location features across your social networks, but then blew it by taking a picture in your kitchen with Big Ben waving at you from outside the window. Or maybe you have friends over and they’re busy sending geotagged tweets from your balcony about how cool your new place is. Local shop receipts with addresses sitting on the table? A reflection of a suitcase with your address on the tag?<\/p>\n All of these things can be solved in advance by taking a few precautions and hiding what you don’t want on display (or just closing the window).<\/p>\n You may also have to ban non co-operative friends from your house, but we can’t really help with that one.<\/p>\n For whatever reason, pictures like these tend to be very popular on Twitter – there’s no end of ill advised credit card closeups and other personal information thrown up on a daily basis.<\/p>\n Bad people can do all sorts of things with this information and none of it tends to be particularly good for the individual\u00a0waving the item around (say goodbye to $80,000 in 30 seconds or less<\/a>).<\/p>\n Spatial awareness is a wonderful thing, but all too often people forget about it at the worst possible moment in their quest to get the right shot. High up? Railings<\/a>. Low down? Train tracks<\/a>. Museum? Oh, no<\/a>. Places you’re not supposed to be taking selfies\u00a0in and you did and now everything has gone horribly wrong? You bet<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a very big problem, with extremely serious consequences<\/a>\u00a0for anybody not paying attention.<\/p>\n This hasn’t really taken off, but there are Android Trojans out there which will ask a victim to take a selfie holding some form of personal identification<\/a>. Ensure your mobile device is securely protected<\/a>, don’t allow installs from unknown sources and always read the reviews for any new app on Google Play to minimize your chances of accidental infection.<\/p>\n One way or another, selfies are here to stay and will likely\u00a0work their way into security solutions<\/a> in the future. For now, think before you set up your perfect shot and have a safe, free from disaster selfie session.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christopher Boyd<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1.<\/strong>\u00a0Easily identifiable imagery in your photo<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Selfies with credit cards\/plane tickets\/bills\/everything else<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Safety first<\/strong><\/h3>\n
4. Malware selfies<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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