Guide | How To The ultimate guide to staying anonymous and protecting your privacy online

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Whenever you browse the web, your privacy is under constant barrage. Advertisers are trying to track every move you make, and governments around the world want in on the action as well. Getting tracked by Facebook and Google is bad enough, but knowing that the NSA has its eyes on your web traffic is more than a little worrisome. Thankfully, there are steps you can take to protect your anonymity on the web, and prevent other organizations from monitoring your browsing habits, ensuring your privacy online.

In this post, I’m going to highlight thirteen different methods you can use to keep prying eyes off of your web traffic. Some methods are more complicated than others, but if you’re serious about privacy, these tips will help you remain anonymous on the open web. Of course, internet security is a topic in and of itself, so you’re going to need to do some reading to remain thoroughly protected on all fronts. And remember, even the most careful among us are still vulnerable to imperfect technology.

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[Oxygen]

Good article.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Great article full of info that gives the user a placebo feeling of security and invisibility.
And while TrueCrypt is a VERY good encryption program, it has been bypassed by multiple malwares and government agencies, not to mention that "anno" hackers proved beyond the reasonable doubt that a HDD encrypted with TrueCrypt takes exactly 17 seconds longer to hack then using NO encryption at all.
Next to the password manager while its GREAT if you got problems remembering passwords its also target number ONE the moment your browser gets exploited by a malware to gain complete access to your pc.

There is no such thing as online privacy as your connection might be secured but your internet NODE is not.
Thus everyone willing and capable of hacking a stupid lowlevel ISP node can tap all the data they ever wanted.
Just saying.
However granted, it is a really good article and in theory its all true. Sad thing is the real world works a bit different as you might have the highest security known to mankind on your pc, but the moment you are visiting a webpage that still is being run on 1980's software you are going to be subject to the weakest link in your comminucation chain which in this case is the webpage you just visited.
Think about it.