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Is this really the case? Most non-technical people I talk to don't seem to care about security or maintenance, unless it prevents them from performing their dai

by Zirro 15y ago

Is this really the case? Most non-technical people I talk to don't seem to care about security or maintenance, unless it prevents them from performing their daily computer-activities.

seanp2k2 15y ago
haha, this is interesting because I feel like I'm much more paranoid now that I'm pretty deep into security. I run a ton of Firefox privacy extensions and it still freaks me out. For the curious: - AdBlock+, because public Wi-Fi is slow and I don't like using more bandwidth than necessary - NoScript in "allow global" mode (still catches some XSS and other nastiness) - RequestPolicy (like noscript but for cross-site requests; also great for only looking at text as most big sites now host CSS/JS/images on a CDN) - Priv3 (blocks most opt-in social media integration while still letting it function if you want) - Ghostery (blocks tracking cookies/pixels/other methods) - Certificate Patrol (alerts you to any changes to SSL certs on sites -- it's surprising how often many sites change SSL up. Protects you from spoofing if you pay attention) - HTTPS Everywhere - MAFIAAFire (Gee! No Evil! to un-filter Google autocomplete, Pirate Bay Dancing, and Redirector to circumvent Department of Homeland Security DNS hijacking) - Header Spy because I do lots of debugging web apps and it lets me quickly robtex a server. - Wappalyzer to see what CMS or common software the site is running on I'm pretty tinfoil'd up and still paranoid.
- Zirro 15y ago
  That makes us two. I run with the first three and a couple more of those you mentioned (although NoScript isn't in global mode, if you can bother with RequestPolicy, why not NoScript as well?). I know about most of the others you mentioned but don't feel the need for them (yet), however I'll look into Certificate Patrol. You may want to check out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy - BetterPrivacy, if you haven't taken care of it's features in other ways.

by Zirro 15y ago

Is this really the case? Most non-technical people I talk to don't seem to care about security or maintenance, unless it prevents them from performing their daily computer-activities.

seanp2k2 15y ago

haha, this is interesting because I feel like I'm much more paranoid now that I'm pretty deep into security. I run a ton of Firefox privacy extensions and it still freaks me out. For the curious: - AdBlock+, because public Wi-Fi is slow and I don't like using more bandwidth than necessary - NoScript in "allow global" mode (still catches some XSS and other nastiness) - RequestPolicy (like noscript but for cross-site requests; also great for only looking at text as most big sites now host CSS/JS/images on a CDN) - Priv3 (blocks most opt-in social media integration while still letting it function if you want) - Ghostery (blocks tracking cookies/pixels/other methods) - Certificate Patrol (alerts you to any changes to SSL certs on sites -- it's surprising how often many sites change SSL up. Protects you from spoofing if you pay attention) - HTTPS Everywhere - MAFIAAFire (Gee! No Evil! to un-filter Google autocomplete, Pirate Bay Dancing, and Redirector to circumvent Department of Homeland Security DNS hijacking) - Header Spy because I do lots of debugging web apps and it lets me quickly robtex a server. - Wappalyzer to see what CMS or common software the site is running on I'm pretty tinfoil'd up and still paranoid.

Zirro 15y ago
That makes us two. I run with the first three and a couple more of those you mentioned (although NoScript isn't in global mode, if you can bother with RequestPolicy, why not NoScript as well?). I know about most of the others you mentioned but don't feel the need for them (yet), however I'll look into Certificate Patrol. You may want to check out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy - BetterPrivacy, if you haven't taken care of it's features in other ways.