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What is a GOOD VPN? Oct 07, 2021

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VPNs are often considered an essential part of your toolkit if you want to live a modern, privacy-conscious lifestyle... but most computer security experts will tell you that they’re not tools for privacy AT ALL!
When you use a consumer VPN, the VPN company is able to see everything you’re doing. Many log and even sell all of your data.
And even if they promise not to, it’s difficult to verify.
But that doesn’t mean we need to avoid commercial VPNs altogether -- there can be good reasons to use one.
For example, if you’re on public wifi at an airport or coffee shop, or if you want to spoof your location.
But not all VPNs are created equally, and a big piece of evaluating a VPN provider is understanding how they make their money and how responsibly they handle data.
In this video, I go over how VPNs work, when to use them, and criteria for choosing a good one.
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - How VPNs Work
01:14 - Why use a VPN?
03:10 - Criteria for a VPN
08:04 - Recommended VPNs
VPNs do have their place in your privacy toolkit - just make sure you are using them correctly!
Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell
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For more information about VPNs, read this in depth guide from Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/training/choosing-a-vpn/

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Why the SEC's regulations are KILLING crypto, with Charles Payne on Fox Business Oct 01, 2021

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Talking Crypto with Charles Payne on "Making Money", Fox Business, from September 30th 2021
Thanks so much for having me on the show, Charles!
Original clip:
https://youtu.be/aocb1Lwe1z4
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Charles Hoskinson: Cardano, Crypto Toxicity & Institutional COLLAPSE Sep 30, 2021

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Charles Hoskinson is best known as the creator of Cardano, a top 4 cryptocurrency that has been comfortably in the top 10 for a while now.
But before that, he was a co-founder of Ethereum, he was part of BitShares with Dan Larimer, and he was the creator of the Bitcoin Education Project.
Back in 2014, long before Ethereum had even launched, I first met and interviewed Charles, at a conference in Toronto. Now 7 years later, we reconnected in Mexico at the Satoshi Roundtable, and dived into everything that’s happened since then. Cardano’s meteoric rise, Ethereum’s success, and the shift of Bitcoin culture.
Thanks for chatting with me, Charles!
00:00 Intro
00:30 The TED talk that changed everything
02:32 Friction and Fallout
03:50 The Developing World
10:12 Inflation and the DeFi Boom
17:00 History of Crypto
19:51 Charles’ early years: Bitcoin Course, BitShares
26:00 Ethereum DRAMA
30:05 Cardano’s Journey of Research
32:47 BATTLE for Base Layer & Bitcoin cultists
42:57 Bitcoin Religion
52:25 Power of CHOICE
57:57 Vilification of “ALTS”
1:03:21 Government intervention
1:08:22 Can Crypto be Stopped?
1:11:17 NEW WORLD ORDER
1:16:13 The CHARLES TATTOO!!
1:17:11 The Future
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What is a VIRTUAL credit/debit card? (2021) Sep 23, 2021

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Credit cards are a notoriously insecure means of payment and credit card fraud is one of the most common types of identity theft in the US. We give out our credit card number constantly without even thinking about it, and with it our name and home address.
Enter Virtual Credit Cards: they're like a VPN for your credit card. No more revealing private information to every stranger from whom you want to make a purchase. No more handing out the keys to the kingdom that allow anyone to draw money from your account.
Crypto is my preferred means of payment because you retain sovereignty over your money, you can have much better financial privacy, and you can save a bunch of money if you use services like Purse.io, Bitrefill, and Dash Direct.
BUT...
Some people are not yet ready to take the plunge completely into crypto. So if you enjoy the world of recurring payments and credit card purchases but are looking for a more private option, VIRTUAL credit cards may be for you!
In this video, Josh Summers from “All Things Secured” explains how virtual credit cards work and why they're great for giving back some privacy and control over your money.
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - What are Virtual Credit Cards
01:18 - Increased Privacy
02:22 - Prevent Credit Card Fraud
04:53 - Manage Subscriptions
05:49 - Caveats
You can check out Josh's channel here for more awesome tips on privacy! Thanks for joining us, Josh!!
https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsSecured
Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Will Sandoval, Emily Kotow, Ogar, and Naomi Brockwell
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The BIGGEST Internet Scams of 2021 Sep 17, 2021

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In this digital realm there are lots of scammers who will try to pick your digital pockets, so you need to learn to be street smart.
Here are some BIG scams to watch out for, which I have either seen personally or have had close friends fall victim to.
As a general rule, never give out your private information, passwords or account numbers out to anyone who calls you unannounced - no matter who they claim to be!
In this video we’ll give you the best ways to know your enemy and protect yourself:
00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Giveaways
01:54 - Don’t trust the “celebrities”
02:34 - Popular email phishing scams
03:11 - DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK
04:32 - Your phone number is PUBLIC
05:27 - SCAM: Appeals to authority
06:00 - The FAMILY TRAGEDY scam
06:42 - How well do you know that person you’re chatting to online?
07:11 - Grooming
07:59 - 2FA
08:26 - Vaults
08:44 - Passwords (watch https://youtu.be/wPQrLkHLWJ4 for good password hygiene!)
I will NEVER contact you to offer advice, counseling, or free crypto and neither will any REAL person. Scammers can do LOTS of damage, so be vigilant and share this information with your family, especially those who may be older or less comfortable in the digital realm!
Produced by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell
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Snowden’s FAVORITE privacy coin: Zcash Sep 10, 2021

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More and more people are waking up to why financial privacy is so important, and just how invasive the traditional banking system is.
Many cryptocurrencies, even though they give you back control over your money, are actually pretty bad for privacy, and can expose your full transaction history and holdings to everyone.
That’s where Privacy coins come in.
This is the first of many videos exploring various privacy coins and how they can bring anonymity back into your life -- We’re starting with Zcash
00:00 - Intro to privacy coins
02:10 - Zero Knowledge Proofs
02:45 - Fungibility
05:00 - Shielded vs Unshielded transactions
07:30 - Transaction Fees
07:37 - Unified Addresses
08:38 - Halo 2
09:00 - Migration
09:50 - Scaling
10:33 - Recommended products
A special THANK YOU to Nathan Wilcox for chatting with us about Zcash!
NBTV team behind this video: Lee Rennie, Will Sandoval, Sarah Kordyban, and Naomi Brockwell
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Scrub your Metadata with THESE Tools Sep 03, 2021

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Did you know that when you share a photo online, you might be revealing the exact location of your home? Or that when you print a document, there are hidden dots on the page that reveal the exact printer the document came from?
Metadata is data about data. It's attached to EVERY digital artifact, and when you share a digital file, you're probably revealing a lot more information than intended.
How do you find this metadata and erase it? We'll teach you in this video.
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - What is Metadata?
02:29 - Why is this important?
04:28 - How to Find Metadata
04:49 - How to Scrub Metadata (Easy)
06:55 - How to Scrub Metadata (Deep Dive)
07:47 - Other Digital Artifacts
Huge THANK YOU to David Huerta and the Freedom of the Press Foundation for their insight!
You can read more about metadata from their training guides:
https://freedom.press/training/redacting-photos-on-the-go/
https://freedom.press/training/everything-you-wanted-know-about-media-metadata-were-afraid-ask/
Written by Will Sandoval and Naomi Brockwell
Edited by Lee Rennie
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The Most PRIVATE Search Engine (2021) Aug 27, 2021

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Search engines completely revolutionized how we access the web. If you want to find a website, you can type in keywords and search engines will show you a list of websites that match your criteria.
But your searches can reveal a lot of private information about you: your interests, location, medical conditions, political affiliation.
Google has 90% of the market share for searches, and they track everything you do. This gives them a deep, granular insight into who you are, and this is information that they sell.
Search engines are also an effective tool for controlling what information people have access to, and there are many studies that look at how search engines influence the behavior of users by filtering out some search results and prioritizing others.
Luckily there are many ways you can protect your privacy and take back control over your quests for information. Sometimes you sacrifice the quality of your search results by doing this, but other times you’d be surprised at how good alternative results are.
We look at the following privacy-focused browsers:
00:00 - What is a search engine?
5:00 - DuckDuckGo
6:56 - MetaGer
8:00 - SearX
9:15 - Qwant
10:17 - StartPage
11:57 - Mojeek
13:01 - YaCy
14:24 - Brave Search
Always assess your personal risk and threat-level when choosing a search engine, and remember that taking small steps to minimize your internet footprint can go a long way in protecting your privacy!
Edited by Lee Rennie
Written by Reuben Yap, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell
Tech advisor: Reuben Yap
Watch this video on LBRY: https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/The-Most-PRIVATE-Search-Engine:a?r=65CZ4khtLVosPYvDbjTstVZydgm3NDF8
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How to Live ENTIRELY on Crypto Aug 20, 2021

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Now that you've gotten into crypto, what do you DO with your crypto?
Many people are building their savings in cryptocurrencies that can't be debased, in preparation for potential future economic upheaval.
But there are some who argue that this day of upheaval is already here:
- We have a financial system where you have to ask permission to use your own money, and payments can be blocked
- Where every time you swipe your card your purchases are tracked & monitored.
- Where any savings that you do leave in fiat in your bank account are losing value fast.
So for this reason, more and more people are choosing not to have any money in fiat at all. They convert all their savings to crypto, and then live entirely off that crypto.
As part of my beginner’s guide to using crypto everyday, I spent a day with Joël Valenzuela to find out how he lives 100% on crypto:
How does he buy groceries? Pay rent? Buy from major chains that don't accept crypto? Manage volatility?
His answers are really helpful for anyone ready to take the plunge!
00:00 - Why spend crypto everyday?
03:45 - Local businesses
04:31 - BitRefill
05:02 - Purse.io
06:03 - DashDirect
07:02 - Flexa
08:14 - Paying Bills with Crypto
09:08 - Paying Rent with Crypto
09:44 - How to Handle Volatility
Special THANK YOU to Joël Valenzuela and ALL of the wonderful Crypto friendly businesses of New Hampshire that welcomed me!
Joël Valenzuela: https://odysee.com/@DigitalCashNetwork:c?r=65CZ4khtLVosPYvDbjTstVZydgm3NDF8
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCduLugW5-tkzxIde8Iz72mw
Fresh House:
https://freshhouse.com/
Maison Navarre:
https://store26567005.shopsettings.com/
Fresh Press:
https://the-fresh-press.square.site/
Granite State Brazilian Jiu Jitsu:
https://granitestatebjj.com/
Watch this video on Odysee: https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/How-to-Live-ENTIRELY-on-Crypto:2?r=65CZ4khtLVosPYvDbjTstVZydgm3NDF8
Disclaimer: I am not a financial adviser! Think of me instead as an advisor on how to live your most sovereign life :)
Edited by Lee Rennie
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WHY Snowden Says Don’t Use WiFi: RESPONSE VIDEO (2021) Aug 13, 2021

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Snowden once tweeted:
"I wouldn't use WiFi at home, because global maps of every wireless access point's unique ID—including yours—are free and constantly updated. I would use ethernet; yes, ethernet on a phone."
A while ago I made a video that explained why you should never turn your phone into a hotspot, and why wifi is less secure than a wired ethernet connection. It was shocking to me how much data we're sending out via radio-waves without realizing.
The video went viral with over a MILLION views! And there have been so many FANTASTIC questions and comments that I felt it warranted a follow up response video. This new video also updates, clarifies and corrects some information that was not 100% explained the first time around.
Watch the first video here: https://youtu.be/KXEe2kqiYIM
Watch this video on LBRY: https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Snowden-says-dont-use-wifi-RESPONSE-VIDEO:e?r=65CZ4khtLVosPYvDbjTstVZydgm3NDF8
Map site referenced: Wigle.net
Great article:
https://osintcurio.us/2019/01/15/tracking-all-the-wifi-things/
Huge thank you to Andy for his help with the research for this video!
Edited by Lee Rennie
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