This needs to be sent to Harry and Meghan....
#12 Don’t do internet Porn sites. Lots and lots of malware embedded there
Bkmk
Post this pic as your avatar..........1. I just bought my own domain name and make numerous e-mail hosts. It is a few dollars a month, but well worth it.
When I was job hunting, I rolled out job@lastname.net, and when I no longer want recruiter e-mails I just delete the account.
8. I work diligently to turn off all Cloud stuff. Both Microsoft and Apple are very bad about automatically backing things up to their Cloud without permission. I do not use private Cloud though. It is not a lot of work to make multiple backups, as high-speed, high capacity removeable storage is cheap. I use SATA, but USB-C should be acceptable.
When most of my friends were in kindergarten, I was homeschooling and got introduced to my first computer (Win98). By the time I was 10 I knew what to avoid online, and how to guard privacy.
It’s gotten harder!
But right now I’d say, get a privacy-minded email (Proton, Mailfence), steer clear of Paypal, use a VPN and an ad blocker, and if you can bear it:
Keep your phone OFF. Don’t surf with your phone. Understand the privacy options and use them.
Stay away from social media. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Also, search yourself on people search sites and see about getting your name removed. Some of them, sometimes, you can.
Ltr.
BTTT
[[ and fewer attempts to take over your account or trick you into downloading a malicious file from your email]]
Somehtin Weird happened yesterday. Was on Linux, clicked on a link to what I thought was a tech sitE, and lo and behold it automatically downloaded a zero byte file intO my download folder. I deleted it immediately, but am wondering if there was something nefarious even though I said the file was empty?
Use paper whenever possible.
Um, if you are on the Internet, you will never, ever, be anonymous. You have zero privacy on the Internet. Every company out there also participates with selling your information they collect.
Check this out! I have been experimenting with all kinds of secure OS, browsers, and protocols the past month. ZeroNet, Whonix, Qube+Whonix, Etc.
This looks interesting as heck here, has everything already built in... MOFO Linux:
https://itsfoss.com/mofo-linux-censorship/
No 9 is insane. That is just like telling a private company to put all of its financials and customer database on ANYONE else’s equipment. Might as well leave your doors unlocked, too.
Anything on any cloud or any aspect of Googel, FBook, etc is, at best, putting it into the public commons; or just giving it away entirely.
MOFO Linux:
Version 8.3.0:
Base System: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Linux Kernel 6.0.11-x64v3-rt14-xanmod1
MATE Desktop Environment (mostly disabled) 1.24.0
Alacritty 0.11.0
Bleachbit 4.1.0
Castero 0.9.5
eCryptfs-utils 111
Element Desktop 1.11.23
Freenet Installer 0.7.5-build-1494
I2P 2.1.0
i3 Window Manager 4.22
i3ass 2021.10.26.3
IPFS-Desktop 2.11.4
irssi 1.2.2 (replaces Hexchat)
JupyterLab 3.5.0
Kodi Media Center 20.0
NextCloud 3.5.4
Newsboat 2.18
Node.js 18.12.1
OnionShare 2.2
Openjdk-11-jre 11.0.17
Outline Client 0.0.0-Daily-07-06
Proxychains 4.14
PulseEffects 4.8.2
Python 2.7.18 (supporting certain legacy applications)
Python 3.8.10 (supporting system and user applications)
Signal Desktop 6.6.0
Telegram-cli 1.3.1
Telegram-desktop 3.1.1
Telegram-purple 1.4.1
Thunderbird 102.7.1
Tor 0.4.2.7
Torsocks 2.3.0
VeraCrypt 1.25.9
Vivaldi 5.7.2921.53
W3M 0.5.3
Zathura 0.4.5
Thanks.
BKMK for later
Good recommendations.
Unfortunately the U.S. government knows everything about me already.
The First lady, not so much.
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