Xenosaiyan
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- Posted: Sat, 24 May 2014 19:44:26 +0000
INTRO:
I've always been the fool out there who gives out a large amount of my personal information on the Internet. Y'all know that I'm in the Air Force and stuff like that. I'm in my mid 20s, well I'm not sure how old 23 yrs old is. My salary is $41,500 dollars a year. And who else has a flat screen TV, and an 1800 dollar gaming computer and a 2015 Subaru Impreza WRX STI? I'm quite unique, and that word UNIQUE is why it is exceedingly difficult to hide your identity online.
BECOMING AWARE:
Ask yourselves the question, who are you trying to hide from? Hackers, your ISP, the Government, big corporations, your bosses, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wives. And that's what you need to ask yourself when you are striving to hide from someone on the Internet. People say, oh I have nothing to hide. So you don't do you? You have nothing to hide? At the very least passwords to bank accounts, credit card transactions, eBay; REMEMBER those recent hacks on eBay.
ABOUT MYSELF:
I'm not saying that I'm the best at protecting my privacy online, but I'd say that I'm somewhat knowledgeable. So who don't I want seeing my information? Well, you guessed it: HACKERS. I could careless if the Government or even an average person looks thru my files. Oh well, I've got nothing to hide, but on an honest note I don't want the average person seeing my credit card information either. So they see what purchases I made on Amazon.com, big deal, food supplements and video games.........but not passwords and information.
METHODS AND STEPS TO TAKE TO PROTECT INTERNET PRIVACY:
Let's start with public internet at McDonald's or internet on your router; I'd say is the easiest way to get your personal information and see what you're doing online. Someone can hack into your router and intercept what you are doing online, when, where, credit card information, etc. So whoever is on your router, roommates, family members, husbands or wives. Or even at McDonald's which are hackers, and people trying to steal other personal information. Be aware of this stuff. The best way to protect yourself from this type of stuff is of course the basics like an encrypted router running a 256-bit encryption.........well that was easy. Not so fast.....like I said people who have access to the network, friends, family, can still see what you're doing online. So the best way to really get some serious privacy is to get a VPN....Virtual Private Network.
WHAT IS A VPN?:
It's a network that you can connect to that encrypts the actual data from your computer, from your computer....it gets encrypted. Then the data gets sent to the VPN which let's say is all the way in Europe; Russia for example. So that data is encrypted along all those routes. So let's see here, from your PC to router, from your router to modem, from your modem to ISP, from ISP to tier 3 gateway, all the way to a private VPN Russian server. It gets unencrypted there and goes to the source website which is,,,,yes that's right.......Google or Amazon. Amazon sends a message back and it's gets encrypted thru the VPN server back to your computer which unecrypts the package so you can read it on your web browser.
Already you're being protected from your ISP, everyone from the router, and all network traffic to your VPN. On the other side someone trying to trace your IP address or location. Untraceable. Unless your VPN gives your location everything will say that it's coming from your Russian VPN server. Amazon, Google, which ever website you visit says that all your data is coming from that source. Pretty kool right?
DNS LEAKING:
More to come on that. But even if you use a VPN make sure that your DNS doesn't leak or your real information can get out.
VIRUSES, HACKING, and MALWARE:
Not every anti-virus can stop a virus. I'd say the basic way to keep a virus that gets thru your system is to put up a firewall. Zonealarms, Windows Firewall, firewalls from various companies. Get a very very good firewall. This way you can block outgoing connections. A virus steals your data, but it cannot send it out if your firewall blocks foreign outgoing connections. As far as incoming connections, the same thing, block all foreign incoming connections so that the hackers cannot get into your system.
TRUECRYPT:
If hackers manage to get in, well, they can't see anything when you use TrueCrypt to encrypt your whole hard drive. And also encrypt your paging file too you can do that with Windows by typing in some commands that'll encyrpt your paging file. But TrueCrypt is awesome because if hackers get into your computer there's nothing they can see cause it's all encrypted. It's like....what kinda computer is this.........lol.
I've always been the fool out there who gives out a large amount of my personal information on the Internet. Y'all know that I'm in the Air Force and stuff like that. I'm in my mid 20s, well I'm not sure how old 23 yrs old is. My salary is $41,500 dollars a year. And who else has a flat screen TV, and an 1800 dollar gaming computer and a 2015 Subaru Impreza WRX STI? I'm quite unique, and that word UNIQUE is why it is exceedingly difficult to hide your identity online.
BECOMING AWARE:
Ask yourselves the question, who are you trying to hide from? Hackers, your ISP, the Government, big corporations, your bosses, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wives. And that's what you need to ask yourself when you are striving to hide from someone on the Internet. People say, oh I have nothing to hide. So you don't do you? You have nothing to hide? At the very least passwords to bank accounts, credit card transactions, eBay; REMEMBER those recent hacks on eBay.
ABOUT MYSELF:
I'm not saying that I'm the best at protecting my privacy online, but I'd say that I'm somewhat knowledgeable. So who don't I want seeing my information? Well, you guessed it: HACKERS. I could careless if the Government or even an average person looks thru my files. Oh well, I've got nothing to hide, but on an honest note I don't want the average person seeing my credit card information either. So they see what purchases I made on Amazon.com, big deal, food supplements and video games.........but not passwords and information.
METHODS AND STEPS TO TAKE TO PROTECT INTERNET PRIVACY:
Let's start with public internet at McDonald's or internet on your router; I'd say is the easiest way to get your personal information and see what you're doing online. Someone can hack into your router and intercept what you are doing online, when, where, credit card information, etc. So whoever is on your router, roommates, family members, husbands or wives. Or even at McDonald's which are hackers, and people trying to steal other personal information. Be aware of this stuff. The best way to protect yourself from this type of stuff is of course the basics like an encrypted router running a 256-bit encryption.........well that was easy. Not so fast.....like I said people who have access to the network, friends, family, can still see what you're doing online. So the best way to really get some serious privacy is to get a VPN....Virtual Private Network.
WHAT IS A VPN?:
It's a network that you can connect to that encrypts the actual data from your computer, from your computer....it gets encrypted. Then the data gets sent to the VPN which let's say is all the way in Europe; Russia for example. So that data is encrypted along all those routes. So let's see here, from your PC to router, from your router to modem, from your modem to ISP, from ISP to tier 3 gateway, all the way to a private VPN Russian server. It gets unencrypted there and goes to the source website which is,,,,yes that's right.......Google or Amazon. Amazon sends a message back and it's gets encrypted thru the VPN server back to your computer which unecrypts the package so you can read it on your web browser.
Already you're being protected from your ISP, everyone from the router, and all network traffic to your VPN. On the other side someone trying to trace your IP address or location. Untraceable. Unless your VPN gives your location everything will say that it's coming from your Russian VPN server. Amazon, Google, which ever website you visit says that all your data is coming from that source. Pretty kool right?
DNS LEAKING:
More to come on that. But even if you use a VPN make sure that your DNS doesn't leak or your real information can get out.
VIRUSES, HACKING, and MALWARE:
Not every anti-virus can stop a virus. I'd say the basic way to keep a virus that gets thru your system is to put up a firewall. Zonealarms, Windows Firewall, firewalls from various companies. Get a very very good firewall. This way you can block outgoing connections. A virus steals your data, but it cannot send it out if your firewall blocks foreign outgoing connections. As far as incoming connections, the same thing, block all foreign incoming connections so that the hackers cannot get into your system.
TRUECRYPT:
If hackers manage to get in, well, they can't see anything when you use TrueCrypt to encrypt your whole hard drive. And also encrypt your paging file too you can do that with Windows by typing in some commands that'll encyrpt your paging file. But TrueCrypt is awesome because if hackers get into your computer there's nothing they can see cause it's all encrypted. It's like....what kinda computer is this.........lol.
