Good ideas -
All except Tor.
Do Not Use It or even install it.
Tor installation attracts interest by DOJ, Homeland Security, SS for Electronic crimes database.
Told that at Agency briefing...
Finally, CISA allows / encourages your Internet service provider and phone company to Share All of your site traffic data with gov’t agencies.
Not if you do it through a vpn. I can pop out of a non-logging server in japan, for example, download whatever I want. Install, run. My vpn is set up so internet access is blocked it it isn’t on. I can switch it so I then pop out in Hong Kong. Or Sweden, or...
Which I do. And I run tor, and have been for years. I’m sure there are people under communist rule who use my rig to access the internet freely. That’s why I do it. All perfectly legal, and it drives china nuts. And Cuba. And control freaks everywhere.