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* [http://www.van-schaik.org/2013/09/08/do-not-track/ Do not track] 08-09-2013 | * [http://www.van-schaik.org/2013/09/08/do-not-track/ Do not track] 08-09-2013 | ||
* [http://www.van-schaik.org/2013/09/08/e-mail-encryption/ e-Mail encryption] 08-09-2013 | * [http://www.van-schaik.org/2013/09/08/e-mail-encryption/ e-Mail encryption] 08-09-2013 | ||
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== How == | == How == | ||
Revision as of 08:31, 12 October 2013
| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Participants | Narya |
| Skills | Software, Social Networking, Common sense, Cryptography, Learning |
| Status | Active |
| Niche | Software |
| Purpose | Education |
Goal
- Make my laptop more MY laptop (and my e-mail.. my calendar... backup... social networks... and well, anything really)
- Document it. A summary will be placed somewhere on this wiki including relevant links. I'll document it as a sort of diary on my own blog (http://www.van-schaik.org/)
- Achieve more privacy in my virtual environment and that of my friends/family
Blog
- Do not track 08-09-2013
- e-Mail encryption 08-09-2013
- Hey, how are you doing 01-10-2013
How
- Attend/contribute to the Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series
- Read what others have written (Bit of freedom, Crypto party for example)
- Find (open source) alternatives for all-the-stuff I use now
- Make my laptop more mine, step by step
- Write and/or point to tutorials
Some of the things I did so far
- OS
- Encryption of my home directory (checked the tickbox to encrypt my home directory in Ubuntu)
- Ubuntu sends searches to Amazon, disabled this
- Probably am going to install another OS on my laptop
- Changed browser: using firefox now i.s.o. chrome
- Installed several browser plugins, e.g.
- HTTPSeverywhere - make use of https as much as possible
- Better privacy - remove super cookies
- DoNotTrack - block advertisement, trackers, web stat trackers
- Ghostery - comparable with DoNotTrack, but works better
- NoScript - block JavaScript and Java stuff
- To take a look at: several plugins for my web browser
- Alternatives for Google stuff
- Use DuckDuckGo in stead of google search
- Removed the mail forwarding to google mail and switched back to my own provider. Actually, it would be better to install your own mail server or perhaps use a peer2peer mail system with e-mail encryption built-in
- Using a paper agenda now - couldn't find a could portable electronic alternative yet. This works just fine
- Replaced analytics with Piwik
- OpenStreetMap i.s.o. google maps
- Removed mail and online banking from my mobile phone (can perhaps be put back after I changed the OS)
- SSH tunnel to encrypt internet traffic from another network (e.g. a public wifi spot) to a place I trust more
- Tomboy notes with rsync in stead of Evernote
- Created a PGP key and set the default settings to "encrypt mail" for the people who are already in my list (key ring)
- Social media
- Played around with Diaspora (as alternative to Facebook)
- Checked out Retroshare - it's retro... and you can share things (chat, forum, mail, file, all friend2friend), uses PGP
To do
- A lot
- Have fun and not become too paranoid ;)
- Be realistic: if you have a secret, don't put it on the interweb or on your computer
