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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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One Thing To Do Today: Tuesday routine, update everything

December 6, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

TL;DR If a device has a connection to a network, it needs a frequent update schedule.   Computational devices on

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Screenshot of a list of search engines including DuckDuckGo and ixquick on Chrome settings page.
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One Thing To Do Today: Use a privacy focused search engine

December 6, 2016December 7, 2016 carlyn 2 Comments onething, privacy, search

TL;DR: Set StartPage or DuckDuckGo as the default search on your browser. Put the other in the bookmarks bar. Search engines know what we look for,

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Screen shot of a browser window with a green button at the center and text behind it listing what the suer has doe, like how fast they clicked the button, etc.
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One Thing To Do Today: Amuse yourself, then toughen up your browser.

December 2, 2016December 3, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, web browsers, web safety

I have a new friend. It’s the scripted voice on clickclickclick.click, a website keeping me company as I write this

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One Thing To Do Today: Tuesday Sweep, where are your backups?

November 29, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

TL:DR Sign up for Crashplan with the option of managing your own keys. The SFMUNI was able to tell the

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One Thing To Do Today: Add Self Review to Tuesday Checklist

November 22, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

It’s Tuesday Sweep Time on my calendar.  I’m trying to create a github-pages site that will be a nice little

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close up of an infographic which lists the three types of tactics, in person, phone and digital
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One Thing To Do Today: Research Social-Engineering

November 21, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, social-engineering

TL;DR: Read the entire SmartFile article on 23 Social Engineering Attacks, or at the very least scroll to the end for their summary

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