personal-security-checklist

Checklists at https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/blob/...

I found this quite useful, and follow some of the ideas. https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist Credits: to HN homwpage post I saw months ago

Assuming you meet the fundamentals of online privacy [0], and you are unwilling to go the "degen" route (second-hand-wiped-paid-cash laptop < bare-bones OS < VPN routing < VM < VPN routing < Tor [1]). Is there any[2] future in which true online privacy is achieved without legislation, through sheer innovation? Is this future just for power-users (like now) or also for the average internet enjoyer? Today it seems like you can't truly hide, you are just blocking ads. [0] https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist [1] Leaving plenty of steps for your imagination (or experience) [2] I genuinely mean any

> https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/blob/... I went through a mad phase where I had loads of extensions installed in my main browser. Then all these stories came out about addon authors getting contacted by shady actors who wanted to buy the addon so they could add malicious code that siphons off personal data. Now I just have uBlock Origin and that's it! I trust it NOT to be taken over by bad actors. Addons also have exploitable bugs in them, and also having multiple 'privacy addons' can mean some overlap in functionality where the tracking protection is redundant since it's covered by another addon. Like who really needs Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo privacy essentials, and then uBlock running all together? And with browsers shipping with fingerprinting mitigation, and having the option to surf strictly HTTPS sites, so

Pull request: https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/issue...