For example, use a password manager, use 2FA.
I don’t reveal my privacy secrets on Lemmy.
- I never type the password of my computer in front of anyone or under any security cameras
- I have a password manager
- I spent lots of time reading about aliens so they know not to mess with me
- I acknowledge my surveillance officers and have chats with them via my computer’s camera, so if I’m ever in a pickle they’re friendly with me
It’s always a good advice to be on good terms with the surveillance officers. I do it too and sometimes they even look in the other direction when I did wrong ;-)
Any good alien information you can share?
If I share it the aliens won’t respect me.
Those are security guards, not privacy guards…
Things I do what give me a percieved sense of privacy/ security:
- use Firefox with Add-ons (Ublock origin, Idontcareaboutcookies, Istilldontcareaobutcookies, Consent Blocker)
- browser set up to block third party cookies and to delete any cookies after closing
- not allowing to store any credentials in the browser
- using different passwords for different services (not one password for all)
- using Two-Factor-Authentification on services which are connected with banking account
- not using freemail providers for email
- using a temporary email where possible if registration is required
- encrypted hard drive and encrypted backups
- do not use cloud storage (I rely on old school portable hard drives and thumb drives)
- using an additional firewall to stop certain not-quite-legally-obtained programs from phoning home (these programs can’t be replaced through FOSS at the moment, or are too ridiculously overpriced to buy them right now)
- restrict/ forbid operating system to collect anonymous data and to phone home (as if that helps…)
- don’t do online banking with an android 8 device
The password storage thing sometimes seems to be a hassle. I have stored my passwords in a physical moleskin, written with a pen, like an old person would do. When I have that book not availiable (when travellling), I have to guess my credentials.
At work I have the browser stored all the credentials. It’s so much faster and easier. But since it’s at my job I don’t have to worry about my own private stuff.