Protect Yourself Online - 5 Pillars of Security and Privacy - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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I'd like to comment on the Linux Operating syetem. I have been a fan of Linux for 10 years including organising some Linux festivals. Today I ran Linux Minty 19.2 as a live disk. It is set by default to use Yahoo as a search engine. Normally I use duckduckgo. I went to a page to find out more about Thunderbird tools that I like to use. The page had four medical pictures of the male urinary system and ads for some prostate thing. For the record I have never searched for anything remotely like that. That was disgusting. I can't look at that and say that Linux Mint has any interest in my privacy, security, or sane enjoyment of using the internet. They are a scumbag group of clowns. I will have to look for another distro. Yes, of course I could change the search engine etc but whats the point? The distro has already shown by its default what it wants me to see? So I would have to use Linux Mint wondering what dirty trick will they pull to try to get me to see that sort of garbage?
Linux Mint developers can take their distro and shove it where those medical pictures go. I want out from Windows 7. So I am NOT in a mood to put up with any distro's absolute crap. Linux Mint you load of &--&-.
Whats a distro where I can avoid a repeat of this garbage?
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I'd like to comment on the Linux Operating syetem. I have been a fan of Linux for 10 years including organising some Linux festivals. Today I ran Linux Minty 19.2 as a live disk. It is set by default to use Yahoo as a search engine. Normally I use duckduckgo. I went to a page to find out more about Thunderbird tools that I like to use. The page had four medical pictures of the male urinary system and ads for some prostate thing. For the record I have never searched for anything remotely like that. That was disgusting. I can't look at that and say that Linux Mint has any interest in my privacy, security, or sane enjoyment of using the internet. They are a scumbag group of clowns. I will have to look for another distro. Yes, of course I could change the search engine etc but whats the point? The distro has already shown by its default what it wants me to see? So I would have to use Linux Mint wondering what dirty trick will they pull to try to get me to see that sort of garbage?
Linux Mint developers can take their distro and shove it where those medical pictures go. I want out from Windows 7. So I am NOT in a mood to put up with any distro's absolute crap. Linux Mint you load of &--&-.
Whats a distro where I can avoid a repeat of this garbage?
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Larry
There's an important component to address with browsers.. and that's WebRTC. WebRTC is basically Google's way of reaching out from behind your VPN, and just handing over your IP address. It MUST be disabled. There are a few ways to do it. One, the easiest, install a WebRTC Block add-on. The second, is install uBlock Origin (do it anyway), and go into -settings,- then click -prevent WebRTC requests from leaking your IP address.- You could also do both, as I've done for years without issue. The other way is to do it in a Chromium based browser, but it's just plain dumb to trust anything in a Google based browser. There is tracking going on here that can't be turned off and is hard coded into the browser itself. Firefox is a Google sellout as well, and I'm not getting into that, but it's still better than Chrome or (IMO) Chromium based browsers. I still use Firefox and Opera, but I also use Brave and Tor.
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There's an important component to address with browsers.. and that's WebRTC. WebRTC is basically Google's way of reaching out from behind your VPN, and just handing over your IP address. It MUST be disabled. There are a few ways to do it. One, the easiest, install a WebRTC Block add-on. The second, is install uBlock Origin (do it anyway), and go into -settings,- then click -prevent WebRTC requests from leaking your IP address.- You could also do both, as I've done for years without issue. The other way is to do it in a Chromium based browser, but it's just plain dumb to trust anything in a Google based browser. There is tracking going on here that can't be turned off and is hard coded into the browser itself. Firefox is a Google sellout as well, and I'm not getting into that, but it's still better than Chrome or (IMO) Chromium based browsers. I still use Firefox and Opera, but I also use Brave and Tor.
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Daniel
I stopped using Vivaldi about six months ago after learning about one of its big bugs the hard way: it doesn't store bookmarks reliably.
There's a chance that during the program closing (regular or crash) for the Bookmarks file to become corrupted and partially or completely unreadable. It's a JSON file which in my case got its first several kilobytes garbled, and the Bookmarks.bak (Vivaldi's single bookmark backup file) wasn't even created. Compare that to Mozilla's, by default, 15 backups (configurable).
Setting up -very frequent- external automated backup might help, but I can't trust a browser which after being 3 years on the market has such big deficiency.
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I stopped using Vivaldi about six months ago after learning about one of its big bugs the hard way: it doesn't store bookmarks reliably.
There's a chance that during the program closing (regular or crash) for the Bookmarks file to become corrupted and partially or completely unreadable. It's a JSON file which in my case got its first several kilobytes garbled, and the Bookmarks.bak (Vivaldi's single bookmark backup file) wasn't even created. Compare that to Mozilla's, by default, 15 backups (configurable).
Setting up -very frequent- external automated backup might help, but I can't trust a browser which after being 3 years on the market has such big deficiency.
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ImpermanentHuman
An awesome use of Tails I think is simply an amnesic offline password manager to store your most secure data via the built in KeepassX app and storing the encrypted file on a high quality usb with a few extra offline media as backups of that file too...the same file can be unencrypted via Keepass on windows or KeepassXC on Linux or Mac if you need emergency access from another of your systems or even someone else-s - but using live tails offline seems fool proof to me
You can use Bitwarden for less security demanding passwords that also have 2fa as a second layer of security for more convenience
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An awesome use of Tails I think is simply an amnesic offline password manager to store your most secure data via the built in KeepassX app and storing the encrypted file on a high quality usb with a few extra offline media as backups of that file too...the same file can be unencrypted via Keepass on windows or KeepassXC on Linux or Mac if you need emergency access from another of your systems or even someone else-s - but using live tails offline seems fool proof to me
You can use Bitwarden for less security demanding passwords that also have 2fa as a second layer of security for more convenience
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buthlezi
Another excellent video !!! Just a quick question. I have been using Linux Mint on a dual boot with windows 8.1 for a few months. I am having problems with the right mouse button when using Linux - it doesn't always show menu options when I click it either in a browser or on the desktop. I also have problems when selecting menu options with the left mouse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Of course this is nothing compared to the issues I am having with windows 8.1 and I am certainly not planning to move on to windows 10...
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Another excellent video !!! Just a quick question. I have been using Linux Mint on a dual boot with windows 8.1 for a few months. I am having problems with the right mouse button when using Linux - it doesn't always show menu options when I click it either in a browser or on the desktop. I also have problems when selecting menu options with the left mouse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Of course this is nothing compared to the issues I am having with windows 8.1 and I am certainly not planning to move on to windows 10...
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word20
VPN: NordVPN has double VPN, Tor over VPN, P2P servers etc. Several people are using it also in countries with heavy censrship like China etc. I have been using Nordvpn for years and I am satisfied with them. When you have an issue you can livechat with them and the issue is solved in a few minutes. They ahve their own DNS servers
Tails: They recommend that you flash it on a USB and then from the first USB to a second USB.
Browser: You could check out Dissenter browser
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VPN: NordVPN has double VPN, Tor over VPN, P2P servers etc. Several people are using it also in countries with heavy censrship like China etc. I have been using Nordvpn for years and I am satisfied with them. When you have an issue you can livechat with them and the issue is solved in a few minutes. They ahve their own DNS servers
Tails: They recommend that you flash it on a USB and then from the first USB to a second USB.
Browser: You could check out Dissenter browser
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Mechanysm
10:24 OpenDNS -> Ipv4: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 Ipv6: 2620:119:35::35 and 2620:119:53::53
Cloudflare -> Ipv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 Ipv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
Quad9 -> Ipv4: 9.9.9.9 and 149.112.112.112 Ipv6: 2620:fe::fe and 2620:fe::9
Google -> Ipv4: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 Ipv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844
Adguard -> Ipv4: 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15 Ipv6: 2a00:5a60::ad1:0ff and 2a00:5a60::ad2:0ff
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10:24 OpenDNS -> Ipv4: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 Ipv6: 2620:119:35::35 and 2620:119:53::53
Cloudflare -> Ipv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 Ipv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
Quad9 -> Ipv4: 9.9.9.9 and 149.112.112.112 Ipv6: 2620:fe::fe and 2620:fe::9
Google -> Ipv4: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 Ipv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844
Adguard -> Ipv4: 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15 Ipv6: 2a00:5a60::ad1:0ff and 2a00:5a60::ad2:0ff
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Cleight
I have a question:
What is the difference of security when it comes to Apple/Mac versus Windows? I guess I'm asking if Apple/Mac is more like Windows or Linux when it comes to security and other such things??
I don't use Apple/Mac but I am curious as to what the similarity and differences are.
Thanks for your time and the videos with all the work these take on your part.
And if anyone else reads this comment and wants to reply then feel free to do so
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I have a question:
What is the difference of security when it comes to Apple/Mac versus Windows? I guess I'm asking if Apple/Mac is more like Windows or Linux when it comes to security and other such things??
I don't use Apple/Mac but I am curious as to what the similarity and differences are.
Thanks for your time and the videos with all the work these take on your part.
And if anyone else reads this comment and wants to reply then feel free to do so
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SpitFireFrenzy
--ChrisTitusTech great vid but can you talk to us about how to set up a VPN with tails?
Tails is doesn't recommend it officially because it can set up a
permanent entry gateway on the machine but have discussed adding it to
future builds. Would setting a up a vpn router and then running
tails+tor off that internet connection be a workaround?
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--ChrisTitusTech great vid but can you talk to us about how to set up a VPN with tails?
Tails is doesn't recommend it officially because it can set up a
permanent entry gateway on the machine but have discussed adding it to
future builds. Would setting a up a vpn router and then running
tails+tor off that internet connection be a workaround?
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Salvaje
Hey Chris, thanks for the video.Most people focuses more on desktop internet but most do not think about their mobile devices. You should look at privacy on mobile as well, although most of what you said can be applied to a phone. This being a beginner Monday, I don't think it is common knowledge to use something like Blokada and 1.1.1.1 app.
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Hey Chris, thanks for the video.Most people focuses more on desktop internet but most do not think about their mobile devices. You should look at privacy on mobile as well, although most of what you said can be applied to a phone. This being a beginner Monday, I don't think it is common knowledge to use something like Blokada and 1.1.1.1 app.
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