Erasing your digital footprint Tutorial and Guide.

in #steemstem6 years ago (edited)

digital_feet2_photo_via_shutterstock.jpgSo you think you can hide all your traces? Well I hope that I can help with some things today. Here is come basic information on hiding your traces a little bit more. A digital footprint is a trail of data you create while using the Internet. It includes the websites you visit, emails you send, and information you submit to online services. A "passive digital footprint" is a data trail you unintentionally leave online.

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Use firefox with "pocket" dfisabled, and with addons for security, privacy, browsing experience, etc.

Don't save your passwords on a plaintext or in some "cloud" service like lastpass, create and remember one good main password and use KeePassX (and I mean the one with an X) that has the option to generate the rest.
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Use GNU/Linux. Start with Lubuntu for easy mode (stay away from something called BSD, is suspected to leave backdoors open).

Use a GNU/Linux distro free from "systemd", which is suspected to be the last resort of secret agencies to implant a backdoor on "hacker friendly" operating systems.
---Begins to cost money from here---
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Buy a router compatible with OpenWrt and install OpenWrt.
Buy a VPN service in some privacy friendly country.
---End of money cost---
---Start of extreme high security---

Replace your e-mail provider with a more safe, more appropriate provider, or use Exim in your own server for e-mail.

Use YaCy with collaborative database disable when in need to search the web.

Tunnel all your communications through i2p, not Tor, to navigate internet.

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Erasing Your Digital Footprint: http://wakeup-world.com/2011/11/25/erasing-your-digital-footprint/
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NSA surveillance: how to stay secure: http://web.archive.org/web/20170321010933/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-youtube-viewing-and-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
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Some lists for secure tools
Privacy Tools - Encryption against global mass surveillance https://www.privacytools.io/

PRISM Break - Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora https://prism-break.org/en/

On encryption (very good intro)
Email Self-Defense - a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

Thanks for coming by and reading the article I also found these within the 4chan world. I just wanted to share tIf this helped you upvote and resteem!

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