How To – Page 4 – CRASH Space

camera being held to take picture of food at a restaurant, but the phone is wrapped in tinfoil

One Thing To Do Today: Time for some tinfoil

December 17, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments faraday cage, mobile phones, onething, privacy, security

In action movies the experienced guide grabs the befuddled hero’s mobile phone and rips out the battery. Fiddling with location settings helps,

Beyoncé rocking an Elizabethan and Louis XIV inspired modern diva worthy costume

One Thing To Do Today: Institute “Beyoncé Rules” for vetting apps

December 16, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments checklist, mobile phones, onething, privacy, security

TL;DR: An app or service you don’t have can’t spy on you. Be choosey. From all of the previous work

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 5, How to look for mitigations

December 15, 2016December 16, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments

We had a great conversation with Santa, but it won’t help us at all if we don’t look for ways

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 4, What the Ulitmate Threat Actor Sees

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 carlyn 3 Comments onething, privacy, security, threat actor, threat model

So now we look at our diagram as if we were one of our threat actor personas. To do things

red rotary telephone

One Thing To Do Today: Collect phone numbers for future Tuesday Sweeps

December 13, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments activism, onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

Back on November 20th, Michelle kicked of the Civic Engagement Survival Guide with the Who’s My Representative Mini Hackathon. She not only

diagram on paper surrounded by pens, pencils and a coffee cup.

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model Part 3, Map The Ecosystem

December 12, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment diagram, onething, privacy, security, threat model

I’m the weirdo that loved diagraming sentences, so this next part makes me nerdily happy. Time to take one of

WIP : HTC Vive Lighthouse Beacon, #OpenVR Calibration, Ts3633 for Position Aware Devices

December 12, 2016December 12, 2016 matt 0 Comments ewma, fastled, feather, github, htcvive, lighthouse, NeoPixel, nycresitor, openvr, project, teensy, TS3633-CM1, vive

like many projects, this is a tale of knowing HOW, WHEN, and WHERE to start. i’m never quite sure. HOW does

A hoodie with no face visible, 1's and 0's with pink text stating - Ceci n’est pas une hacker.

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model Part 2, Who is the threat anyway?

December 10, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments security, threat actor, threat model, user personas

In the early 2000’s I marked some time as a Usability and Human Factors Professional, drawing on neglected novelist within to

model town on a grid of paper

One Thing To Do Today: Learn a new phrase “Threat Model”

December 9, 2016December 10, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments onething, security, threat model

Option 1: You know something can go wrong. “They” can get you …THEM…today it will be in some new way that

Screenshot of EXIF information window

One Thing To Do Today: Learn how to remove EXIF Data from photos

December 8, 2016December 9, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments EXIF, image processing, onething, privacy, security

TL;DR Use ImageOptim or one of their recommendations to remove EXIF data off pictures before they go up on the

Woman working at a table with laptop open and Protonmail visible

One Thing To Do Today: Email, not making the perfect the enemy of the better.

December 7, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments

TL;DR – Protonmail, Tutanota rank as the easiest to use “secure” free email as service options. Might also consider Fastmail in conjunction