It's finally out and it's a doozy. This should keep you busy for awhile.
The Complete Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life
From passwords to phones to cloud accounts, this guide shows you how to ...
Really? Facebook trackers and Google cookies on your "untraceable" site?
⚠️WARNING⚠️ this person / site / guide is a farce
If a complete guide to digital lockdown is nothing more than a laundry list of tools and slogans (‘encrypt everything’, ‘decentralise your life’, ‘kill your cloud’) and doesn’t help you decide what to protect, from whom, and at what cost, then it doesn’t guide.
And tool-centric approaches while appealing are passé.
I hate the term "threat model". I'd rather use "environment" or somethimg. But real security is more like understanding your dynamic, individual threat model, prioritising strategies, and developing habits.
For a genuinely useful alternative see Privacyguides.org, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense and their lesser known Security Education Companion.
⚠️WARNING⚠️ this person / site / guide is a farce
If a complete guide to digital lockdown is nothing more than a laundry list of tools and slogans (‘encrypt everything’, ‘decentralise your life’, ‘kill your cloud’) and doesn’t help you decide what to protect, from whom, and at what cost, then it doesn’t guide.
And tool-centric approaches while appealing are passé.
I hate the term "threat model". I'd rather use "environment" or somethimg. But real security is more like understanding your dynamic, individual threat model, prioritising strategies, and developing habits.
For a genuinely useful alternative see Privacyguides.org, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense and their lesser known Security Education Companion.
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