10 golden rules for protecting your digital privacy
Originally published on the 13th of September 2006, this article has been edited, updated and expanded to feature recent Open-Source applications and provide general guidelines on securing digital privacy.
Every week, we hear of laptop computers holding critical information being lost of stolen. Most of us don’t deal with classified government data, but we do own and use on a daily basis devices and storage media that hold a lot of information about us. They could put your privacy at risk if it they got into the wrong hands.
Here are 10 simple golden rules to follow in order to secure your computer and your storage media. Most of those tasks are as mundane as locking your front door or you car, but by combining then you can drastically raise the walls protecting your privacy. All the applications mentioned in this article are open-source, cross platform, and pretty much straightforward (they don’t require a PhD in Computer Science to be used).
