Security and Privacy Encylopedia

[OcTradism]

During past days, as bad consequence of boring time from the pandemic (we are all tired of the COVID-19) and lockdown, I digged to learn more on security and privacy and found some good ones. Instead of keeping them on my all computer, on browser bookmark, I share them here for you. If you know it, please ignore. If you know something more, please share.

Thank you and stay safe !

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Aegis Authenticator, a decent alternative to Google Authenticator and Authy

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mk4

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Crypto Security - Additional Protection For Your Seed/Private Keys.

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Lucius

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[BEWARE] Sim Port Attack

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GreatArkansas

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[GUIDE] How to Create a Strong/Secure Password

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GreatArkansas

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Windows 7 stopped product supports. Please upgrade your Windows and wallets ASAP

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tranthidung

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How to Install Tails OS on USB flash drive for Wallet Purpose

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DroomieChikito

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Using mobile phone as a full mobile wallet

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nc50lc

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[Guide] Secure air-gapped crypto wallet storage method

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Sowik

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Bitcoin’s Public-Key Security Level

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nullius

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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world

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gmaxwell

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Why you should upgrade Windows 7 to Ubuntu

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n/a

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Linux Mint

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n/a

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Basic security guide (firewall, backups, antivirus..)

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testbug

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Let's talk about Privacy

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bitmover

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#DeGoogle - Take back control of your privacy

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xxjumperxx

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Traditional Authentication, 2FA and 2SV

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Luzin

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Overview on browsers. Which one should we use? Support free web while browsing

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bitmover

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How to stay private when using Android (protonmail blog)

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bitmover

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Bitcoin Privacy - How easy it is for someone to find all your wallets addresses

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bitmover

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2FA HW security keys, Yubikey and such

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Captain-Cryptory

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Discord Deskt. client can steal your Password,Cryptocurrencies via PM Link!

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Lafu

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Brave browser hijacking links and affiliate codes!

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notblox1

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[TUTORIAL] Generate 2FA with Keepass (instead of Authenticator App)

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bct_ail

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[INFORMATION] The Cipher, it's meaning, types and connection in cryptography

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Nellayar

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[Education] Bitcoin Privacy and Anonymity

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Husna QA

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[Tips and Information] Privacy and How to Stay Anonymous Online

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Krislaw

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[Howto] Use Ledger Nano as Security Key

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aundroid

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[Guide] Protect your Crypto: Security tips for your home computer & network

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aundroid

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{WARNING} Cybersecurity vulnerabilities/flaws: Linux and Mac users (04.02.20).

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TheBeardedBaby

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[Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach

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nelson4lov

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What to do to avoid phishing sites

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hd49728

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Host-file to deal with phishing sites

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hd49728

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[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts

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dkbit98

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UPDATED!!! Punycode and how to protect yourself from Homograph Phishing attacks?

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wwzsocki

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Authentication: Types, Risks/ Attacks, Advice

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OcTradism

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Visiting official websites and download official apps, not fake ones.

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OcTradism

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WATCH OUT - TikTok app is a SPYWARE!!!

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wwzsocki

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Privacy-o-meter, a free tool to assess the privacy level of your BTC transaction

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BlockchairExplorer

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Forum account: security, privacy, and recovery

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OcTradism

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A treatise on privacy

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fillippone

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Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless

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1miau

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Critical Electrum vulnerability

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theymos

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How Scammer tried to Hack my Bitcointalk and how to Protect yourself?

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dkbit98

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Protecting Your Account

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LFC_Bitcoin

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Privacy at risk using mobile phones. Not only Bitcoin-related.

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fillippone

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Why it’s important to avoid telling everyone about your crypto holdings

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1miau

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Cyber actors are now targeting Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping

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cryptomaniac_xxx

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Archive.is has stopped supporting Brave Browser

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witcher_sense

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Hacked and Changed Email addresses Account using Yopmail accounts

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Swenna

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Using Disposable Email Address to Prevent Spam

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ImThour

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2FA-Recovering your KYC Google Auth Keys.

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condoras

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[SECURITY | GUIDE] How to protect your wallets and private keys

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Nestade

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Password Spray Attack vs Brute Force Attack

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Jating

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Clipboard Hijacker Malware Monitors 2.3 Million Bitcoin Addresses

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Lafu

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How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V

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LoyceV

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Hacker blackmailing me and ask for money. Did you also get this email?

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sujonali1819

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Privacy, ways to protection

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Charles-Tim

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Guide and advice for new Users before you Download anything from the Forum

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Lafu

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Report Malware and Suspicious Links here so Mods can take Action !

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Lafu

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A hands-on lesson on why you should check PGP fingerprints!

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nullius

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[Eng: Tutorial] PGP Signature - Encrypt/Decrypt message - Fingerprint

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mdayonliner

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[GUIDE] Disposable Email Address for anonymity

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Jawhead999

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Crypto security: Passwords and Authentication (Livestream -aantonop)

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Andreas Antonopoulos

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Hope people that give out personal address safe? Ledger wallet users' attacks

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Charles-Tim

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Bitcoin security and privacy

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Charles-Tim

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{Warning}: Many 2FA hardware are vulnerable to attacks

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Baofeng

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Keep Your Crypto #SAFU (CZ's Tips)

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Binance Academy

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Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts

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theymos

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The paranoid user's security guide for using Electrum safely.

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NotATether

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Hardware Wallets that work with Smartphones?

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dkbit98

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Best 2FA applications to use. Open source, free, secure. Better than Google's

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UchihaSarada

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Bitcoin Q&A: Why is Seed Splitting a Bad Idea?

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Andreas Antonopoulos

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Ledger Recover: What The Hell is Happening? With aantonop and lopp.

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Andreas Antonopoulos

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Petition to remove Wasabi from recommendations of bitcoin.org

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Medusah

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WARNING when using mobile device wallets (Android, iOS)

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NotATether

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[SECURITY> Activate this to secure your wallets (Android)

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borovichok

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Recommendations needed for switching to privacy-friendly mobile OS

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BlackHatCoiner

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A must read if you are running Crypto wallet on PC

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Crypt0Gore

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n0nce's Steel Washer Backup jig (customisable)

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n0nce

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Stainless steel Bitcoin Recovery Seed Plate

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willi9974

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[100 dots] seed phrase backup

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LoyceV

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Securing Your Seed Phrase with Washers

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fillippone

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passwordstore an open source password manager

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albert0bsd

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PGP Signature - Encrypt/Decrypt message - Fingerprint

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Learn Bitcoin

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Bitcointalk - About Privacy (Use throw-away email)

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theymos

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General guidelines for privacy of sending BTC transactions

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Blockchair.com explorer

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Protect yourself from fake wallet software (guide)

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NotATether

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Awesome Privacy on Blockchains

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Mikerah

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Bitcoin Privacy Guide

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Bitcoiner.guide

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Tor-only Bitcoin & Lightning guide

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Jameson Lopp

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Awesome Privacy

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Awesome-privacy.xyz

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Why Privacy matters

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Privacyguides.org

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What happens when your identity is stolen -- real story || Avoid CEXs!

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GazetaBitcoin

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Bitcointalk - About privacy

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theymos

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Our dependency on Google

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Amphenomenon

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[nakamura12]

It's much better that you spend your time during lockdown like the ones you mentioned. Increasing your security at this time is recommended. Scammers are taking their chance to scam people and if you don't know much about keeping your security and privacy tight then this one will help. You should also add a thread about google authenticator or authy if some people prefer using it.

[Btcbeginners]

A good collection of posts, Yes these days a lot of scammers are tried to scam the people who don't care about the crypto security. As we can know the touching with the forum.

[XenoFever]

Nice post, spending your tine with that things is more useful than other things, learning is the best way to kill our boredom at home while we still under community quarantine. Spend your time in more productive things, instead if spending it in social media, use this time to learn more things

This  18 ways to make your online accounts more secure will help you more.

[mk4]

If there was a topic that would belong to this list, it would probably be this airgapped wallet guide[1] by Sowik.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2828437.0

[KrisAlex18]

Let us all make our day under community quarantine be productive, good thing for you is that you spend your time on more valuable things, learning is for lifetime, there is no limit on learning new things because time by time everything evolves especially in the field of technology where having new is really quick and upgrading always happens. For us to go with the flow of emerging technology, we should keep learning especially about technology because in the end of the day technology will be the best, there are so many things that technology can bring to us.
Learning about securities and protection of accounts is really important because of so man hackers and scammers in the crypto world.

[o_e_l_e_o]

This  18 ways to make your online accounts more secure will help you more.

Eh, there's some advice in that article that really isn't great.

Both 1Password and LastPass are proprietary and closed source. You should use an open source manager such as Bitwarden or KeePass instead.

SMS based 2FA is not secure. Use an open source authenticator app such as Authy or Aegis.

"Install a VPN" is poor advice as many people would default to using a free VPN, which almost always makes your security and privacy worse, not better. You need to research and pay for a good VPN.

Biometric security (facial recognition, fingerprints scanning, etc.) is much easier to fool and bypass than a strong password. Don't use it.

[ZaraCB]

I found two important topic on security and privacy. You can bookmark it.
1. Bitcoin’s Public-Key Security Level
2. CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world

[OcTradism]

I found two important topic on security and privacy. You can bookmark it.
1. Bitcoin’s Public-Key Security Level
2. CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world

Thank you. They are excellent threads. I read them but don't totally understand all details. In the long lockdown period, I wish I will learn as many useful things on privacy and security from them. The OP was updated with your help.

[xxjumperxx]

A small way I have made myself have a bit more privacy is getting away from Google and its Products.
I dont know if this is a a thread to put on the list, I was just amazed how much Data Google had on me and was constantly collecting.



#DeGoogle - Take back control of your privacy

[testbug]

Back in 2018 i did write a small post about basic security like antivirus and backup strategies.
I pushed my old topic as i also think due to corona the "scam" activity has rised.
You can find my post here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3319747.msg34674261#msg34674261

[bitmover]

Add mine
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3210982.0

Let's talk about privacy

[Alucard1]

Nice thread, as of this community quarantine, we should make something productive. Securing our wallet is really important, it will make our accounts away from hackers. Those wallet that is not well secured are prone from attacks that is why there are many wallets that have been stolen by the hackers because of having lack of securities.

[bitmover]

I will suggest a few more:

Overview on browsers. Which one should we use? Support free web while browsing.

How to stay private when using Android (protonmail blog).

Bitcoin Privacy - How easy it is for someone to find all your wallets addresses

[Luzin]

I think this is on your topics, sorry if im wrong
[TUTORIAL] Generate 2FA with Keepass (instead of Authenticator App)
[INFORMATION] The Cipher, it's meaning, types and connection in cryptography

[Henri Cartier]

It is good to see all the security & privacy related topics on one thread. Even I had started a topic(Missing Out The Important Topics!!) for collecting all the important topics which are getting vanished as the new topics created. Good job @OcTradism, I appreciate the effort.

I am contributing a few threads related to security and privacy here. I hope that helps!

[Education] Bitcoin Privacy and Anonymity
[Tips and Information] Privacy and How to Stay Anonymous Online
[Howto] Use Ledger Nano as Security Key
[Security] make your phone Secured
[Guide] Protect your Crypto: Security tips for your home computer & network
{WARNING} Cybersecurity vulnerabilities/flaws: Linux and Mac users (04.02.20).

[nelson4lov]

I've read through some of the listed threads over the past couple of months and the contents were super helpful.

@OP, I wrote a security related thread in November 2019 about phishing attacks and I also shared some resources that would help mitigate if such a case does happen. I'll appreciate if it gets a spot on your list/collection.

Link to the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201569.msg53078705#msg53078705

Security and privacy are two very important  things that should be taken very seriously. You're doing a good job. Keep it up.

[OcTradism]

OP is updated with 22 latest threads. I thank to all of you who contacted me with your good threads.

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Author

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Basic security guide (firewall, backups, antivirus..)

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testbug

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Let's talk about Privacy

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bitmover

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#DeGoogle - Take back control of your privacy

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xxjumperxx

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Traditional Authentication, 2FA and 2SV

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Luzin

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Overview on browsers. Which one should we use? Support free web while browsing

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bitmover

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How to stay private when using Android (protonmail blog)

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bitmover

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Bitcoin Privacy - How easy it is for someone to find all your wallets addresses

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bitmover

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2FA HW security keys, Yubikey and such

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Captain-Cryptory

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Discord Deskt. client can steal your Password,Cryptocurrencies via PM Link!

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Lafu

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Brave browser hijacking links and affiliate codes!

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notblox1

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[TUTORIAL] Generate 2FA with Keepass (instead of Authenticator App)

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bct_ail

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[INFORMATION] The Cipher, it's meaning, types and connection in cryptography

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Nellayar

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[Education] Bitcoin Privacy and Anonymity

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Husna QA

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[Tips and Information] Privacy and How to Stay Anonymous Online

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Krislaw

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[Howto] Use Ledger Nano as Security Key

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aundroid

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[Guide] Protect your Crypto: Security tips for your home computer & network

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aundroid

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{WARNING} Cybersecurity vulnerabilities/flaws: Linux and Mac users (04.02.20).

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TheBeardedBaby

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[Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach

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nelson4lov

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What to do to avoid phishing sites

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hd49728

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Host-file to deal with phishing sites

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hd49728

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[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts

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dkbit98

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UPDATED!!! Punycode and how to protect yourself from Homograph Phishing attacks?

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wwzsocki

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[chinedu4210]

It's good u really taken time to inform us of our safety of our wallet, indeen scanners are in the rampant, it's also necessary to work with the relevant security agency put in place to check cybercrime or scanner, constantly updating ur password and most time google authentication do help

[Saint-loup]

OP is updated with 22 latest threads. I thank to all of you who contacted me with your good threads.

Thank you for this useful meta-thread but I'm little bit surprised to not find any topic about multisig wallets there while it's one of the best ways to secure funds IMHO.
You just need to install a multisig wallet on your computer and another one on your smartphone to get a kind of secure 2FA wallet. Then you just need to scan the QR-code of your transaction with your smartphone when you want to send some funds.