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DON'T Buy Email Hosting From Your Web Registrar! Jul 23, 2022

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https://youtu.be/K9SiOYRcTCc
https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/private-email-hosting:9
Being able to use your business name for your email address is professional and also puts you more in control of your communications. Most email hosting options offered by your web registrar are NOT private though, so what do you do? You can host any domain email with Protonmail instead!
Protonmail is renowned for their great privacy and encryption, but you don't have to use their @protonmail.com email address -- they allow you to use your own custom domain, while still enjoying all the encryption benefits they have to offer!
In this video we will teach you how to move your custom email domain over to Protonmail, to keep all your communications private.
00:00: Intro
02:00: Protonmail Privacy
04:53: Moving Custom Domains to Protonmail
06:04: Adding Your Domain
06:18: Verify Your Domain
08:04: Configure DNS Records
08:50: Create Addresses / Add Users
09:23: Configure DNS Records - cont’d
14:15: Why Custom Domains Are Important
Let’s move towards email providers that don’t harvest the content of all our emails. This goes a long way to helping us reclaim our privacy in the digital age.
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The Most Important Case in Crypto Jul 21, 2022

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https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/The-Most-Important-Case-in-Crypto:5
Is every single crypto transaction about to be ruled illegal?
Yesterday one of the most important hearings in crypto took place, and most people had no idea.
Basically, the SEC is suing LBRY Inc. for illegally selling securities -- They argue that LBRY credits, or LBC (the token that makes the entire decentralized LBRY ecosystem run), is a security.
Yesterday was a hearing at the US District Court in New Hampshire to determine whether there would be a summary judgment or whether the case would move to trial. But the case is bigger than almost anyone realizes, and will set the precedent for how the ENTIRE INDUSTRY is regulated.
Here is what the SEC argued in court:
It doesn't matter if 75% of purchases are for utility
It doesn't matter if the work isn't being done by seller
It doesn't matter if the seller never uses investment language
All that matters is where the token price is moves on the open market.
This would mean that basically every cryptocurrency is a security.
If the SEC wins, every person who works in the industry or has ever bought or sold crypto is guilty of trading illegal securities.
Written by Joël Valenzuela and Naomi Brockwell
Interview footage from Joël Valenzuela and John Deaton
See John Deaton's full interview with Jeremy Kauffman here:
https://odysee.com/@CryptoLawTV:9/sec-v.-lbry-summary-judgement-arguments:9
See Joël Valenzuela's response to the hearing for Digital Cash Network here:
https://odysee.com/@DigitalCashNetwork:c/LBRYcaseYTS:e

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Getting MULTIPLE PRIVATE Phone Numbers Jul 15, 2022

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https://youtu.be/HYNZKQZEHoU
https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell#4/Getting-MULTIPLE-PRIVATE-Phone-Numbers#5
Our cell number is tied to everything we do. Most of us have had our cell phone numbers for many years, even decades, and we hand it out to everyone: to merchants, healthcare providers, social media accounts.
That number can become associated to us like a social security number, and it allows all our interactions to be correlated.
We need to ditch the idea that we have just one number our whole lives, that we give to everyone.
In this video we’re going to give an example of a clean up strategy you can use to lock down your existing number, and create multiple VoIP numbers not associated to your real world identity, that don’t tie all your activities together.
00:00 Why Handing Your Cell Number Out Is Dangerous
02:36 VoIP vs Cell Number
05:16 New Phone Strategy Overview
05:47 Porting Existing Number to VoIP
06:17 Number Porting/SIM Swap Attacks
07:23 Google Voice Porting
08:24 VoIP Communications are NOT PRIVATE
10:10 New SIM
10:26 Creating Multiple VoIP Numbers
12:02 MySudo
Note: The specific products mentioned are available in a few countries including America, but the overall ideas that you should never hand out your cell number, should lock down existing cell numbers by porting to voip, should get a new sim phone number you don't share with anyone, and should only use voip numbers going forward, are universal concepts. Hopefully this video will help you choose the right strategy for wherever you are based!
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How Your WiFi is Betraying You Jul 02, 2022

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Assange once said, “A mobile phone is a tracking device that also makes calls”. He’s not wrong. There are countless ways that phones track our movements, and one of them is via WiFi probe requests.
In this video we explain how your phone automatically connects to your WiFi whenever you return home or to your favorite coffee shop, and why it leaves your device vulnerable to all kinds of attacks and surveillance -- it can allow people to maliciously intercept your internet traffic, track you, or find out personal information about you.
Main takeaways:
Turn your WiFi OFF when you're not using it
Don't automatically connect to WiFi networks
Forget networks after joining them
Keep your OS and device updated
00:00 Intro
01:00 How WiFi connections work
04:29 Hidden networks
05:49 Why broadcasting SSIDs is a privacy nightmare: Tracking
07:45 Why broadcasting SSIDs is a privacy nightmare: Exposes Private Info
09:06 MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE VIDEO: malicious connections
11:03 How to protect yourself
13:11 Summary
Research paper from Johanna Ansohn McDougall:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.03745.pdf
Video from Modern Rogue:
https://youtu.be/NkNgW3TwMy8
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PRIVATE Alternatives to Google Docs! Jun 22, 2022

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Billions of people use Google products for their personal and professional needs -- their products are high quality after all! For example, Google Docs Editors Suite allows you to collaborate in real time with anyone in the world in a seamless experience!
Unfortunately, it's not at all private -- Google gets access to ALL your personal information.
In this video we look at two alternatives to Google docs that are private: Skiff and Cryptpad.
00:00: Intro
01:28: Why look for alternatives?
03:04: Cryptpad Deep Dive
06:34: Cryptpad TLDR
07:15: Skiff Deep Dive
10:50: Skiff TLDR
11:03: Summary
Both platforms are free, and are secured with end-to-end encryption, so not even Skiff or Cryptpad can see what you're writing. Try them out, and let us know if you have other e2ee google-docs-alternatives that you recommend!
https://cryptpad.fr/
https://skiff.com/pages
Huge thank you to Andrew Milich for his time!
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Phone Pair-Lock Tutorial: BLOCK Phone Searches! Jun 15, 2022

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When traveling, your device may be at risk of confiscation by authorities, and that means a lot of your sensitive data is at risk.
In our previous video we discussed how to keep your data safe, and one tool we mentioned is called "phone pair-locking". This prevents a forensics machine from connecting to your device to analyze it, and also prevents anyone making a copy of your phone.
In this video, we will take you step by step through the process of locking your phone to a trusted computer.
WARNING: This process will permanently wipe all data from your phone, so proceed with caution!
NOTE: This process is only available for iOS devices
00:00 Intro
00:33 What is Phone Pair Locking?
01:41 What is Rooting?
2:08 Warning
2:32 Setup Supervised State
3:06 Download Apple Configurator
03:19 Main Tutorial Start
04:24 Create a Profile
06:07 Apply Profile to Phone
07:05 Helpful Tips and Considerations
08:33 Conclusion
Huge thank you to Michael Perklin for his expertise!
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Privacy Travel Tips: How To Keep Your Data Private If Your Phone Is Seized Jun 08, 2022

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Traveling with digital devices can be risky -- sometimes phones or laptops are seized as you’re going through security, they can be scanned, and a whole bunch of personal data taken from them. This includes your private photos, passwords to email accounts, and even your 2FA seeds.
For anyone who wants to maximize privacy, here are 6 tips for traveling with electronic devices.
The final tip is “phone pair locking”, where, even if your phone is taken by security, it can't be connected to any forensics machines or copied.
00:00 Intro
01:49 How Phone Pairing Threatens Your Privacy
03:56 How to Protect Your Data
04:00 Power Off Devices
05:32 Silo Data
06:13 Don't Draw Attention To Yourself
07:04 Protect Your 2FA Seeds
07:25 Configure Your Pin Settings
08:28 Phone Pair-Locking
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They're not SELLING your data. It's MUCH worse... May 31, 2022

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It says on the Big G's website:
‘We do not sell your personal information to anyone’”
The truth is, they ARE SHARING your personal and sensitive information, and being compensated handsomely in return. But what’s ACTUALLY going on in this exchange is far WORSE that you can possibly imagine.
I chat with Bennett Cyphers from EFF, and Johnny Ryan from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, about what is actually being done with your personal information and real-time location data.
00:00 "We Don't Sell Your Data"
00:36 How Do They Make Their Money?
01:32 Real-Time Bidding
03:22 How the Data is Collected
04:10 What Data is Collected?
05:27 Which Companies Get Your Data?
06:38 WHAT Do These Companies Do?
08:58 How Is All This Possible?
10:06 Are They Selling Your Data?
10:31 How Can We Protect Ourselves?
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These Tracking Links Reveal A LOT About You May 21, 2022

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Tracking links are a way for sites to track you across the web. They usually look like super long strings of random numbers attached to the end of normal URLs, and companies use them to build up dossiers on people based on their browsing habits. And they can reveal VERY sensitive information about you!
Luckily there are many tools available to help you strip them out and protect your privacy.
00:00 What are Tracking Links?
02:50 How to Spot a Tracking Link
05:09 Sneaky ways sites track you
05:59 How to Stop Tracking Links
06:27 Debouncing
07:22 Unlinkable Bouncing
08:56 BEST Tip for Stopping Tracking Links
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ISPs Share "Netflow" Data & Trace Traffic Through VPNs May 19, 2022

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VICE has a great article explaining how internet service providers quietly share detailed information about network traffic. It's called "netflow data" and they can even trace traffic through VPNs.
But the scary part is how many people that data is then shared with.
We dive into the details.
00:00 Intro
01:45 ISPs and Netflow Data
05:47 What is netflow data?
08:22 What is done with YOUR Data?
15:29 "We don't give away all your data... we promise"
20:49 Palo Alto Networks has access to 80% of Global Flows
22:37 Not all ISPs are guilty
26:32 Senator Wyden’s Pushback
28:05 Snowden Revelations
29:00 Stay Vigilant!
31:08 Outro
Article from VICE: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru
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