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Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question: Is there a simple guide or
by marvindanig 10y ago
Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question:
Is there a simple guide or steps that I can follow to make myself anonymous? I know there is TOR and VPNs, how can I go about setting it up?
- cblock811 10y agoThis might be a good starting place for you. https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-minutes-for-free-and-why-you-urgently-need-one-d5cdba361907 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-min...
- beamatronic 10y agoThat just moves the problem
- yborg 10y agoIt moves it from an entity that is highly motivated to monetize the customer's information to one whose business is to do the opposite.
- beamatronic 10y agoWhich could change at any time - the business could be acquired, subpoenaed, etc.
- oostevo 10y agoYou can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider. Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.
- beamatronic 10y agoWhen there is something that can be monetized, an MBA will eventually find it.
- subpixel 10y agoHere are two good how-tos on the subject: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-... https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-10-minutes-for-free-and-why-you-urgently-need-one-12a6f63e5ddb https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-10-mi...
- marvindanig 10y agoAwesome, thanks!
- lettergram 10y agoI think it's time that we as a community really start putting effort into security. Making tools that people can use is so important, Tor is not really a plug and play system. If Grandma can't do it, then it's not good enough. This is pretty much the only way to ensure any remote privicy (sometimes).
- Jach 10y agohttps://github.com/jlund/streisand https://github.com/jlund/streisand
- orthecreedence 10y agoIt's still beta, but if you'd like a (more) private Evernote (assuming you even have note-taking as part of your flow), check out Turtl (turtlapp.com). Disclosure: I built it.
- slantaclaus 10y agoI'd recommend a VPN service called Private Internet Access. StrongVPN was the one I used to use. Either way, you don't have to set anything up on your smartphone or computer so long as they support your OS with an application.