Take a look at How To Protect Yourself Online Like An Arab Revolutionary from Andy Greenberg at Forbes.com - It's especially well done and current. Highlights include:
- Run the No Script Plug-in from Firefox
- For Instant Messaging use Pidgin's Off The Record OTR encryption (avoid Skype and Google chat) which encrypts your messages with a perfect forward encryption algorithm
- Run Ubuntu rather than Windows or Mac OS X
- Run the HTTPS Everywhere Plug-in from Firefox which forces web sites that support SSL encryption like Google, Twitter and Facebook to switch to that more secure mode.
- Run Tor, an anonymity program that makes your internet browsing path untraceable.
Source document for this article was https://www.accessnow.org/pages/protecting-your-security-online
We've had a long running problem with hacking - see ReportingWrongdoing.com
Many of our recent posting seem to have mysteriously disappeared, most notably our postings on locksmiths and key security. We'll replicate and update them when time allows.
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