A Presentation on Security & Privacy
from virgilthejolly@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 30 Jul 2024 13:14
https://lemmy.world/post/18104892

I live in an authoritarian country. I have a group of friends & acquaintances from a political organization who have asked me to deliver a presentation on security & privacy (specifically for activists). Although I’m somewhat well-wersed in tech, I’m not so confident and there may be things that I might miss. What are some of the things that are often overlooked and I must mention? Thank you.

#privacy

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jet@hackertalks.com on 30 Jul 2024 13:24 next collapse

ssd.eff.org/playlist/journalist-move

The EFF has some very good literature on what journalists should be doing as best practices, reviewing that material would be a good starting point

GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml on 30 Jul 2024 13:26 next collapse

It’s important to be libre and open source.

If someone claims somefhing without source, you cant trust it.

MrSoup@lemmy.zip on 30 Jul 2024 14:06 collapse

Source? /s

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jul 2024 14:38 collapse

Claude Shanon.

jet@hackertalks.com on 30 Jul 2024 19:22 collapse

You made me smile and laugh! Well done.

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jul 2024 19:26 collapse

Glad at least one person got it!

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 30 Jul 2024 15:04 next collapse

Stay safe

virgilthejolly@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 2024 11:26 collapse

I am, but my fellows aren’t. My internet connection for the past 3 years have not been without Tor or VPN.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jul 2024 15:55 next collapse

virgilthejolly@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 2024 11:24 collapse

Merci.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 30 Jul 2024 17:18 next collapse

Monero for private secure transactions

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 30 Jul 2024 21:43 collapse

Two factor auth should be a whole section, and tell people not to use SMS. Mention SIM swap attacks and stingray devices

Tell people setting up 2FA with SMS usually makes their accounts less secure, and only to use TOTP or hardware tokens.

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 01 Aug 2024 15:28 collapse

My most important issue is that phone number is a deanon - your main phone number has to be tied to your ID, so the only option would be a longtime rental, which would get expensive, especially if it is one number per each service.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 01 Aug 2024 18:45 collapse

When I do these trainings I tell them never to enter a phone number into an account because its a huge risk

Ideally just don’t have a phone number at all