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The purpose of this document is to make recommendations on how to browse in a privacy and security conscious manner. This information is compiled from a number of sources, which are referenced throughout the document, as well as my own experiences with the described technologies.

I welcome contributions and comments on the information contained. Please see the How to Contribute section for information on contributing your own knowledge.

Table of Contents

• Motivation
• Audience
• TL;DR?
• Updates
• Technologies that Affect Security and Privacy

bluehat

Privacy Guide for Activists with Haters

In light of the gamergate fiasco, we realized that most of the targeted individuals had their private information trivially publicly online. Later, several authors had more immediate experience with online harassment. This guide is meant to help people take basic steps required to protect their online privacy, hopefully reducing the number of crazies who threaten to show up at your house.

We do not believe that leaving your information online means you deserve harassment, we simply wish to arm people who want to speak up with all the defensive tools available.

This guide is not an anti-government-surveillance document, as it only helps you make your information private and does not remove it. Fighting back against surveilance is a very different problem, and there is a separate guide for that.

Hiding Your Whois Data

This one should be easy, but it is the number one privacy failure w

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

3dd13

define :generate_ssh_keys, :user_account => nil do
  username = params[:user_account]
  
  raise ":user_account should be provided." if username.nil?
  
  Chef::Log.debug("generate ssh skys for #{username}.")
  
  execute "generate ssh skys for #{username}." do
    user username
    creates "/home/#{username}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"