Volume 9: Avoiding involvement in your own digital security.
Some of you may have heard about the latest news about Yahoo! telling a billion people that their accounts were hacked 3yrs ago and are already wondering how to avoid getting involved. If you're affected and you don't want to get involved in securing your account, definitely don't change your password. But what about everything else online? Here's a few ways to avoid securing your online activity from malicious hackers like those at the NSA.
Some of you may have heard about the latest news about Yahoo! telling a billion people that their accounts were hacked 3yrs ago and are already wondering how to avoid getting involved. If you're affected and you don't want to get involved in securing your account, definitely don't change your password. But what about everything else online? Here's a few ways to avoid securing your online activity from malicious hackers like those at the NSA.
- 1. Don't use anti-tracking add-ons for your browser such as AdBlock, Decentraleyes, Blur, Disconnect, Random Agent Spoofer, etc.
- 2. Don't ever go to www.prism-break.org to see open source, security minded alternatives to common software you use every day.
- 3. Don't use a free VPN to anonymize and encrypt your internet traffic, and get past (censorship and access-restricting) firewalls. Especially if they have, a browser add-on, apps for your phone, Windows, and Linux, and a paid service which is an outstandingly good deal.
- 4. Don't go to www.offnow.org to find out how you can help to legally shut off the water supply that cools the data centers used to spy on you for the federal government.
- 5. Don't ditch Windows for Linux, or any other superior and more secure operating system and only run Windows in a sandboxed virtual machine to play games.
- 6. Don't change passwords frequently, maintain a good firewall, and encrypt everything.
- 7. Don't abolish the NSA.
- 8. Don't forget to turn off your anti-spyware programs when you log on.
- 9. Don't use cheap paid services like StartMail, or Windscribe that don't have hidden costs like a free hotel room where the manager records you and the wife having sex and sells the tapes. If you were to get involved for $5/mo you would have encrypted email with StartMail, without Google selling your information or spying on you.
- 10. Don't run your own encrypted email server, use mesh networks, or use a phone and software made with security in mind.
