Posted on 05/05/2023 5:32:58 AM PDT by ShadowAce
This needs to be sent to Harry and Meghan....
#12 Don’t do internet Porn sites. Lots and lots of malware embedded there
Bkmk
Post this pic as your avatar..........
TOR is a great VPN............................
1. I just bought my own domain name and make numerous e-mail hosts. It is a few dollars a month, but well worth it.
When I was job hunting, I rolled out job@lastname.net, and when I no longer want recruiter e-mails I just delete the account.
8. I work diligently to turn off all Cloud stuff. Both Microsoft and Apple are very bad about automatically backing things up to their Cloud without permission. I do not use private Cloud though. It is not a lot of work to make multiple backups, as high-speed, high capacity removeable storage is cheap. I use SATA, but USB-C should be acceptable.
When most of my friends were in kindergarten, I was homeschooling and got introduced to my first computer (Win98). By the time I was 10 I knew what to avoid online, and how to guard privacy.
It’s gotten harder!
But right now I’d say, get a privacy-minded email (Proton, Mailfence), steer clear of Paypal, use a VPN and an ad blocker, and if you can bear it:
Keep your phone OFF. Don’t surf with your phone. Understand the privacy options and use them.
Stay away from social media. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Also, search yourself on people search sites and see about getting your name removed. Some of them, sometimes, you can.
Same here! Avoid cloud at all costs. I have more removable storage (sata, usb) than a squirrel has nuts. I back up obsessively with a variety of devices.
Speaking of backup I strongly recommend getting a ham radio license.
“Keep your phone OFF.”
Then what’s the point? It’s important for emergencies; that’s why my family and I have them.
I am amazed that people shop, email, and do their banking via cellular. Seems like that’s asking for trouble. Maybe they get lucky. I hope so.
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Well, I can turn my phone on in the time it takes to dial a rotary phone :)
I’m not sure about Android but with an iphone you can get 911 without even dialing. (Emergency SOS.)
There are ways to make a 911 call with no signal, with no service. You can reach them with no phone at all if you have internet and a VoIP.
There’s always a tradeoff. If your priority is emergency assistance rather than privacy, that’s your call, npi.
[[ and fewer attempts to take over your account or trick you into downloading a malicious file from your email]]
Somehtin Weird happened yesterday. Was on Linux, clicked on a link to what I thought was a tech sitE, and lo and behold it automatically downloaded a zero byte file intO my download folder. I deleted it immediately, but am wondering if there was something nefarious even though I said the file was empty?
[[Well, I can turn my phone on in the time it takes to dial a rotary phone :)]]
Oh man, that’s like, forever!!!
As kids were were of course impatient and wanted o speak to who ever we were callin immediately, and we’d have to dial their numbers and wait for the rotary tO get back to its position before dialing the next number. Long story short, numbers with lots of 8’s and 9’s and 0’s etc were excruciatingly long for us imoatient folks lol
Can still remeber the “kitchen phone” we all used, and how excited we were when we fi ally got a longer chord so it could reach the livinroom lol. As ,i
Later.
Deleting it was a good idea.
Where was the link? In an email?
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