Protect yourself from online monitoring - NovaSPOR FM 94.6

Salo recently caused the scandal PRISM to monitor citizens through the internet and specific social networking websites.

The fact that any government agency can have access to our personal data has shaken the users of the Internet. There are three simple ways to reduce as much as possible this threat.

Let encrypt everything!

The concept of encryption has existed for many years. Indeed, the written word is seen by many as a kind of coding that is understood by a wide audience. On the other side cryptography to electronic files, has to do with the protection of the data contained on a hard drive in a Cloud network or any other electronic storage medium.

To encode our files is perhaps the simplest way to protect our personal data. Both Windows and Mac OS, are embedded systems, known as Bitlocker and FileVault respectively.

Let safely surf

prerequisite is enable the firewall on our computer and install a antivirus. Besides these moves but you should keep in mind what information is shared with different websites. For example, few know that Google stores the records of our search. Of course, anyone who can not be separated from the best search engine in the world, you just throw a look at Tor (The Onion Router).

The Tor Project encrypts many times our original message (ie the word or Search suggestions) before sending our information through a random series transmitters, until they reach the destination server. The same thing happens with the search results that arrive in our computer.

Simple logic

Do we stay connected to the accounts when just surfing the Internet. Also good is to activate the privacy settings available to the browser. Also, we can minimize the information shared on the Internet, especially on social networks. It makes sense for everyone to want to share with your friends on Facebook some nice moments, but there are few cases where users were robbed, just because they post something on their wall.

to use security settings provides us with Facebook, to protect our account. In the settings menu, you activate all options by the safe navigation up alerts to connect to our account.

Finally, very important to frequently delete the history of your browser and have the mind in various emails that do not know the sender. Generally be smart before you share any important information and surf carefree.

Source: newsbeast.gr