>Hello,
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>I am running a personal website and have some critical data on it. I don't want any Tom, Dick or Harry hacker to have access to it so I would like to make it secure. Can anyone lead me in the right direction by explaining how or leading me to an article or something?
probably overkill, but here is what the NSA does.
http://nsa2.www.conxion.com/win2k/guides/w2k-14.pdf