Digital Security- Part 1, by Dakota

(Before It's News)

Before we begin, note that the title is a bit of a misnomer. Digital security is mostly nonexistent. When computers took off, security was never a concern, so they are inherently insecure. I will do my best to help you secure your computer as much as possible. The point isn’t to make your computer invulnerable to attack. That’s impossible. However, just like your survival retreat security, the goal is to make yourself such a hard target that hackers or the government move on to lower hanging fruit. Again, nothing in here will make you immune to the NSA. They have an essentially unlimited budget and thousands of personnel dedicated to cracking all the methods included herein. I will simply guide you through the process of making yourself a hard target. You will be immune to dragnet surveillance and most hacking attacks. Also note that merely Googling most of this software will get your IP address logged on an NSA database. Therefore, use https://www.duckduckgo.com/ for better security. Without further ado, let’s begin.

Your Computer

Let’s start with your actual computer. I don’t recommend an Apple computer, as a friend who works for the government told me that Apple retains near-complete remote control of any computer they produce. I would highly recommend buying a computer from a mom and pop computer company. However, this is very cost prohibitive. Next in line is a Panasonic CF-29. These “Toughbooks” were used by the police and military extensively and are designed to handle wet climates, heat, cold, and rough handling. This is a good all around transportable computer. Another option is to buy a brand new computer with a large hard drive (think one terabyte). Consider the utility of buying a cold computer– one that never accesses the Internet– to store confidential files. When buying new computers, Bitcoin users may want to purchase one with a large graphics card in order to do GPU mining. Preferably, your new computer will have Windows 7 and not 8. (Don’t worry, we’re going to replace the OS. This is just so that the BIOS and other features are easier to access.)

Operating System

Now that we have the computer out of the way, we can move on to the operating system (OS). Obviously, Windows isn’t an option, since Microsoft actively collaborates with the Feds and we already rejected OS X. That leaves Linux, the open source OS. More accurately, it’s a kernel used to make a variety of OSes. The special thing about open source software (F/OSS) is that it doesn’t have a typical copyright. F/OSS has a license, such as the Gnu Public License (GPL), Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL), and MIT license. These licenses, in varying degrees, open the source code of the software to public review. Think of it as public domain for software. Why is this advantageous? Well, you’ve probably heard a lot about back doors, since the NSA scandal. Since F/OSS source code is released to the public, back doors can’t be hidden in it.

Source: http://survivalblog.com/digital-security-part-1-by-dakota/

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