I’m profoundly ignorant regarding general security and privacy online. Any tips, tricks, or resources would be appreciated. Maybe even starting a community, if there’s enough interest in this subject.

  • Prologue7642@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is a really deep rabbit hole you can get into. But basically, today you cannot have privacy. Steps you can do to increase it are things like:

    • Use open source OS (Linux)
    • Use open source OS on your mobile (I would recommend LineageOS)
    • Only use FOSS if you can
    • Don’t use Google/Bing/etc. you don’t really have a good option here, as there is no open source solution. Basically, you can try to trust things like duckduckgo/brave search, but personally I use searxng.
    • Don’t think that because you use VPN you are safe, most of the VPNs are dubious at best, if you really want privacy something like Tor is probably your best bet.

    But most importantly, even if you do everything perfectly, don’t think anything you do is private. It is only a matter of making things more difficult. Your best bet for privacy is just not doing anything online that would be worth the effort to spy on you.

    • TT17@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah there definitely isn’t a silver bullet for this, anything short of a carrier pigeon will have its vulnerabilities. Thankfully I’m relatively safe, I don’t do anything that would get me in trouble. This is more of an extra precaution rather than an immediate threat. Thank you for your feedback. What kind of Linux OS do you recommend? I’ve used ubuntu in the past, mostly because I only have a basic understanding of PC’s.