The Easy One

This part is the most basic one, as every single one of us use browsers to GET ON the internet. What is the internet? I mean how does it work? First there are so called web servers, what are they? They are exactly like your computer. Mainboard, CPU, GPU, hard drive. And these computers are connected to the internet. They have an IP address and domain names bound to IPs. So, when you write that domain name on a browser you just get onto that server, meaning that computer. I guess you get where I am getting at right? The thing you call internet means someone else’s computer! This is same for cloud storage; you think you are saving your files to a cloud which is military grade encrypted. Right? Lies, nothing else, they have access to everything you do on the net. It is their hard disk and they all have backdoors to get whatever they want whenever they want. This is not limited to what you have on the internet, but we will get there.

Do you remember FBI was forcing Apple to give them a backdoor and Apple was saying no. If it was not tragic, it would have been comedy. FBI NEVER had to have that backdoor, they could go into any phone they want at that time. And they didn’t even need that, it was a message, they can read the messages just from the server, they did not even need that phone. BUT of course, they had to show people Apple is the good guy. There are millions of cases if they can get into the phone they can solve the crime, but they were talking about one single case, why? To make Apple more famous. And almost every single person still thinks iPhone is safe and private. LOL. Do they even care about crimes? Hell no! Who cares about the criminals? This is the part we need to understand, NOTHING they say and do is correct or honest.

So, what is the solution? Is there any solution? Or are we condemned to use this software / hardware? Of course there are solutions, the ultimate protection will be just smash your laptop, your phone and never go outside. EASY!

NOW the hard part is how to get private and secure while still being online. Here are some basic tips to get your journey started.

• Never ever use software from BIG corporations. - Use open source, community driven software.
• Never trust any corporation to ensure your security or privacy. Instead trust the community of volunteers.
• Use different browsers for different kind of work. You can divide this stuff into personal, banking- trading, stupid stuff for starters.
• Use Linux. There are a lot of different distros, you can choose the most basic one with windows like interface. And trust me it is not as hard as people say (Like Fedora, just search for the images, it’s really like Mac OS or Windows). It will not take more than 30 minutes to get used to it. If you are expert, I would suggest using Tails or Qubes. - I am using Qubes -
• NEVER EVER click on a link someone sends. It might be from your brother, but his account might be compromised, you will never know.
• You must disable most of the tracking features of your browser.
• Use Firefox. You can use https://ffprofile.com/ to create a nice profile to get you started.
• You should use the uBlock add-on. Enable HTTPS in the settings.
• If you are not going to use any accounts or sync, you can use Tor Browser, which is already optimized Firefox with a kind of a feature which tries to hide your trail online.
• Generally, I would not suggest any VPN, as using VPN you trust its provider as all your online activity passes through their servers. So, it is important who gets your data and what they do with it. But there are very few who are strict with their privacy: Mullvad, ProtonVPN, IVPN. Personally I am using njal.la as they accept XMR.
• If you must log into a website, do not click links, just write it yourself. Why? There might be a letter change which really looks like the original one. For example, you might be logging into gmeil.com instead of gmail.com and you might not even recognize the difference, then in just a second your mail account is gone and when they search your account with a simple bot, they will not a lot of websites that you used this mail to register and steal these accounts as well. This takes like 3-4 minutes tops. There were a lot of instances peoples steam account got hacked by this method. People see a nice trade offer in their mail, when you click the link, which is like staam.com/trade ..., you log in and all gone, the account, your games, the skins you have, which can worth thousands of dollars, if you have credit card info there, it is gone as well.. RIP

And trust me, this is the easiest to prevent, just don’t click on another person’s links. Mostly if it is too good to be true, it is not true. You are not lucky, you are about to get wrecked.

• Use 2fa password. When they steal your cookies, this won’t make any difference, but at least you will be protected from keyloggers and brute force attacks. For this I will only suggest 2 open-source ones: Ravio OTP and FreeOTP. Use them extensively, for every single account you have.
• Do not use any google service. No mail, no search engine, nothing. Never even log into your account with your laptop.
• Instead start using other safe mails: Protonmail is a good one. It has free and paid plans, you can choose whichever you want.