How To Protect Your Online Privacy With Threat Modeling

The internet makes it super easy for other people to see stuff you don’t want them to know about. So how can we protect our privacy online? Get paranoid and do some threat modeling!

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With recent reports of high-profile data breaches, ransomware attacks, and the prevalence of online trackers-- it’s hard to know how best to protect your privacy online. We met up with the cybersecurity experts at Electronic Frontier Foundation to learn more about who’s snooping on us online and what we can do to protect ourselves. To help you decide how to protect the things you really want to keep private from people you are most concerned about, they recommend something called “Threat Modelling” which consists of 5 questions you should ask yourself:

What do I want to protect?
Who do I want to protect it from?
How likely is it that you will need to protect it?
How bad are the consequences if you fail?
How much trouble are you willing to go through in order to avoid those consequences?

From online data trackers to surveillance at school to open wifi networks, this video dives into some threats you could potentially face online and how you could protect yourself against those threats.

SOURCES:

Why Online Privacy Matters and How to Protect Yours (TED)

Surveillance Self Defense (EFF):

Blockers for Online Trackers
Privacy Badger (EFF)
Privacy Tools: How to Block Online Trackers (ProPublica)

Spying on Students: School Issued Devices and Student Privacy (EFF)

Essential Student Privacy and Safety Questions (Common Sense Media):

Best VPN Service of 2017 (PC Mag)

Harvard Rescinds Admission of 10 Students over Obscene Facebook Messages (NPR)

70% of Employers are Snooping Candidates’ Social Media Profiles (CareerBuilder)

Amazon is Making it Easier for Companies to Track You (The Atlantic)

You Probably Don’t Know all the Ways Facebook Tracks You (Gizmodo)

Legal Loopholes Could Allow Wider NSA Surveillance, Researchers Say (CBS News)

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[bffdanger]

As a parent I am not opposed to my child's school tracking information on them but I am going to teach her when she is older the importance of privacy and how to protect herself on the internet. I think that it is a safe rule to always assume that someone can see what you are doing on the internet and if you wouldn't want someone to see/know then you probably shouldn't do it. I am not condoning a surveillance state but it is the world we live in today that the government or businesses are always tracking you.

[ItsGroundhogDay]

3:13 Now I have to change my password.

[InfectedChris]

Tor, VPN, custom HOSTS files, no script

[tannisbhee]

Do not communicate or share information that you consider sensitive on any electronic format if you can help it. Consider any action you take electronically to be compromised.

[foobargorch]

The "correct horse battery staple" theory of passwords is misleading, you need *REAL* randomness (generate/pick words with dice or a cryptographically secure random number generator) and far more entropy per password than 4 simple words offer (even if they are long in the number of characters, the number of choices or "surprisingness" is what matters, to an attacker using a limited dictionary, 4 words is definitely a lot less to try than the space of possible passwords with a similar length but where the variation is in the individual characters).

[factsverse]

To be honest, I have said my passwords to my significant other (well he's my brother, not a partner. Not gay.) and he has forgotten it. It's 20+ characters long. I use passwords 20+ characters long if possible and 16 characters if not possible.

[ericvilas]

Personally, I don’t care what Google sees. The weirdest, most embarrassing stuff I do? If there’s a picture of it then Google has access to it and I really don’t care.
The only thing I’m concerned about is hackers/scammers. But that’s easily solved by just being careful of what you enter in what sites

Also, as for passwords? I’ve been hacked before so now I just use 2-factor for Google, which is my all-purpose main account for everything.

[Darth_Pro_x]

can you please make a video about the venus project and their proposal of a resource based economy? it proposes a new socioeconomic system based on science, it is really faceting in my opinion :)

[ionion]

How does the US Navy, Air Force track the internet? What information like phone number they have to know to start the trace?

[nachrichtentweet]

Apple is a US-Company. I never would recommend a US-Company when it comes to data security. However. Generation Facebook sacrificed our privacy. Iam online since the millenium. our Generation is influenced by 1980's hacker movies. which stand for anonymity at any cost, the condition of being anonymous..

[shirinmokhtabady]

Only the Utopia ecosystem can help me to be anonymous. No options!

[ghadermokhtabady]

Don't be paranoid use the utopia ecosystem. Enjoy your time on the Internet.

[katherinecheng]

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[andrewgeorge]

Not really worried about people hacking me, feel free to hack into my computer and watch all my minecraft lets plays