On-line Safety +-------------------------------------- | Idea "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 And to protect your liberty try the following safety advices... +------------------------------------------------------ | Sources and inspirations The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Surveillance Self-Defense Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): 4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking Global Voices Online 10 New Year's Resolutions to Browse the Internet Safely in 2013 Google Stay safe online Computer Hardering Zabezpečenie počítača (article in Slovak) +------------------------------------------------------ | Ultra secure operating systems Tails (Free/FOSS operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux) Live operating system for use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship, leaving no trace and using state-of-the-art cryptographic tools. Qubes OS (A reasonably secure operating system) Security-oriented operating system with special features. Encrypted files and disk partitions (cryptoloop, dm-crypt, LUKS) Encrypted files and disk partitions +------------------------------------------------------ | Alternative search engines that, unlike Google, does not record user information StartPage StartPage.com DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo +------------------------------------------------------ | Secure email services ProtonMail ProtonMail StartMail StartMail Secure emails Bezpečné e-maily (article in Slovak) +------------------------------------------------------ | Additions Firefox Add-ons: uBlock Origin - free and open source, cross-platform browser extension for content-filtering, including ad-blocking. PrivacyBadger - blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. Firefox settings - about:config: general.useragent.override "" ...for user-agent hiding plugins.click_to_play true stops Java and Flash loading automatically dom.storage.enabled false disables client-side session and persistent storage browser.safebrowsing settings: browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled false browser.safebrowsing.enabled false browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled false browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled false Configuration file for Mozilla Firefox that's supposed to harden Firefox's settings and make it more secure https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js +------------------------------------------------------ | How unique and/or trackable is your browser? Panopticlick (EFF) Study and try to be safe:-)