MyLaptop

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/)
Make people aware, write or point to tutorials

I do not have to explain this, or do I?

Attend/contribute to the Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series
Read what others have written to help people who think this is important (Bit of freedom, Crypto party for example)
Find alternatives for all-the-stuff I use now
Make my laptop more mine, step by step

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

Default home encryption on my home directory (Ubuntu)
Removed the mail forwarding to google mail and switched back to my own provider. Actually that doesn't help - link to news item data retention here -. Actually you need to your own mail server
SSH tunnel to encrypt internet traffic from a public place my laptop is hooked on to another place
Installed HTTPSeverywhere - make use of https as much as possible
To take a look at: Ghostery plugin
Tomboy notes with sync in stead of Evernote
Created a PGP key and set the default settings to "encrypt mail" for the people who are already in my key ring

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