Social Media Self-Defense | Totally Not Malwarehttp://blog.totallynotmalware.net/?p=15
"Recent events have raised conversation about the necessity for operational security in relation to social media. Discussions about how to maintain an online presence while protecting one’s private life and personal identity are cropping up in communities who had previously never felt the need to exercise operational security, and who had never considered the possibility of falling prey to compromised security and data breaches."
A list of basic strategies for helping to mask the link between a social media account and one’s true identity:
- Use a unique email address.
- Choose a unique handle.
- Don’t use the same photos.
- Your tabs are YOUR business.
- Scrub your browsing history.
- When possible, pay in cash.
- Don’t use your legal name.
- If you want to keep a secret, KEEP QUIET.
- Use strong passphrases.
- Don’t share identifying information.
- “Plausible deniability” is a terrible failsafe.
- Being recognized will fuck your shit up.
- Alibis can be helpful, but they’re hard.
- Strict compartmentalization.
- Maintain composure.
- Don’t get cocky.
- Perfection takes practice.