Daniel LakelandNov 4

I've been working the last few days on my presentation for my library technology access talk in December. This one isn't hands on so much, it's informative.

The title page says: "Protecting your online self: a guide to avoiding surveillance and fraud"

Second page says:

Learn about threats

Recognize common fraud techniques

Learn simple tools to protect yourself

Learn some terminology and further resources

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With those purposes in mind, I start out talking about what a "threat model" is... in other words identifying who and what you're trying to protect against, the threats I'm going to talk about are Scammers, Big Tech, and the Government

Under the Government I have about 10 or so screenshots of articles saying how both the US and foreign governments have spied on US citizens. Most of this I expect to be brand new to the audience.

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Countermeasures I'm advocating are never clicking links you didn't explicitly request in email, never giving out data to someone who calls you on the phone (ie. look up phone number and call back). Use 2 factor auth. Don't install screen sharing software at caller request. Don't give out passwords over the phone etc.
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To avoid surveillance I'm just giving them knowledge of some options: Firefox with uBlock and Privacy Badger. Chromium rather than Chrome, avoid Gmail/Drive/Google Calendar/Contacts/OneDrive/Meta apps/Office 365 etc

I'm mentioning the option to move to Linux Mint, GrapheneOS, and to use Signal for your personal and group chats.

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I also mention the issue of Botnets, and running OpenWrt on your router rather than using something ISP provided. As well as avoiding cloud based IP cameras / Ring / Google Home / Alexa etc
Show threadJoborgNov 5
@dlakelan Suggestion for secure cloud document collaboration: @CryptPad ?