MyLaptop
| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Participants | Narya |
| Skills | Software, Social Networking, Common sense, Cryptography, Learning |
| Status | Active |
| Niche | Software |
| Purpose | Education |
Contents
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 your own virtual environment
Why
I do not have to explain this, or do I?
How
- Attend/contribute to the Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series
- Read what others have written (Bit of freedom, Crypto party for example)
- Find alternatives for all-the-stuff I use now
- Make my laptop more mine, step by step
- Write and/or point to tutorials
What did I do so far
To the tech savvy people this is probably just basic stuff, but for me it isn't and I guess it isn't for the average internet user
- Checked the tickbox to encrypt my home directory (Ubuntu)
- Use DuckDuckGo in stead of google search
- Removed the mail forwarding to google mail and switched back to my own provider. That doesn't help - link to news item data retention here -. Actually you need to install your own mail server
- SSH tunnel to encrypt internet traffic from another network (e.g. a public wifi spot) to a place I trust more
- Installed HTTPSeverywhere - make use of https as much as possible
- 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)
- To take a look at: several plugins for my web browser
To do
- A lot
- Have fun and not become too paranoid (I already noticed that you get aware of many issues when you dive into this)
- Be realistic: if you have a secret, don't put it on the interweb or on your computer
