One Thing To Do Today: Learn about The Onion Router, Tor
TL;DR Educate yourself before using. If you’re in, download the software, set it up correctly, use it with care. Next steps include donating to
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Tuesday Sweep: Welcome Back!
Still angry? Me too! But now I’ve got some beautiful smoldering coals that can roast anything. Let get back to work,
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One Thing To Do Today: On dark days, be the light.
On this darkest day of the year, let’s talk about the chilling effect poor privacy and security policies can have on
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One Thing To Do Today: Phones get lost and stolen. Encrypt them.
TL;DR: After doing the Tuesday Sweep, read ArsTechnica’s guide on disk encryption. Add making sure devices have encryption turned on
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One Thing To Do Today: If one must use Social Media, follow Army Rules
TL;DR: The military knows it can’t prevent it’s soldiers from using social media. It doesn’t even want to. But there are
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One Thing To Do Today: Time for some tinfoil
In action movies the experienced guide grabs the befuddled hero’s mobile phone and rips out the battery. Fiddling with location settings helps,
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One Thing To Do Today: Institute “Beyoncé Rules” for vetting apps
TL;DR: An app or service you don’t have can’t spy on you. Be choosey. From all of the previous work
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One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 5, How to look for mitigations
We had a great conversation with Santa, but it won’t help us at all if we don’t look for ways
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One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 4, What the Ulitmate Threat Actor Sees
So now we look at our diagram as if we were one of our threat actor personas. To do things
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One Thing To Do Today: Collect phone numbers for future Tuesday Sweeps
Back on November 20th, Michelle kicked of the Civic Engagement Survival Guide with the Who’s My Representative Mini Hackathon. She not only
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One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model Part 3, Map The Ecosystem
I’m the weirdo that loved diagraming sentences, so this next part makes me nerdily happy. Time to take one of
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WIP : HTC Vive Lighthouse Beacon, #OpenVR Calibration, Ts3633 for Position Aware Devices
like many projects, this is a tale of knowing HOW, WHEN, and WHERE to start. i’m never quite sure. HOW does
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