On-line Safety


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| 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...


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| 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)

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| 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

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| Alternative search engines that, unlike Google, does not record user information

    StartPage
	StartPage.com

    DuckDuckGo
	DuckDuckGo

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| Secure email services


    ProtonMail
	ProtonMail

    StartMail
	StartMail

    Secure emails
	Bezpečné e-maily (article in Slovak)

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| 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


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| How unique and/or trackable is your browser?
    
    Panopticlick (EFF)


Study and try to be safe:-)