Goals

Avoiding surveillance
- What tools to use?
Circumventing censorship
- Which tools to use?
Infosec goals

Safer browsing

Introduction
- Fail
Use a secure browser that protects your privacy
Private browsing
Take control of your browser
Minimise your browser plugins
Switch your user agent
Cookie monsters
Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)
- How it works
- Opt out
Am I NOT FloCed?

Anonymising traffic

Introduction
Tunnelling
SSH tunnels explained
- Workstations and PC’s
- Phones
Use a VPN service
VPN Fail open
- Workstations and PC’s
DNS leaks
- Workstations and PC’s
Digital mixing
- Threshold batching
- Vulnerabilities
Using Tor
Using I2P
Chaining
- You -> VPN/SSH -> Tor
- You -> Tor -> VPN/SSH
Creating a VPN with SSH and tun
Change MAC address
- Workstations and PC’s
- Phones
Renew IP lease
- Workstations and PC’s
Change nickname
- Find SSID
- Change SSID
Edit hosts file
- Workstations and PC’s
- Phones

Securing email

Introduction
- Fail
Use secure email services
- Articles
Use email securely
Detecting fake emails and phishing
Using GNU PG
‘;–have i NOT been pwned?

E2EE messaging

Introduction
Use a secure messaging service

File transfer

Introduction
Choose file sharing services
- Articles
Torrenting (P2P)
Uploading files to a server
Checking integrity of downloads (Linux)
- Workstations and PC’s

Data in rest

Introduction
- Workstations and PC’s
- Phones

Metadata

Introduction
- Techniques for metadata removal
Clean machine with BleachBit
Remove metadata with hex editors
- Usage in general
- Workstations and PC’s
Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit 2 (MAT2)
Edit exif metadata in images
- Workstations and PC’s

Web applications

Introduction
UnFloC your site
Apache
Make the site GDPR compliant
Secure file uploads from users

Protecting your PII

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