OPSEC Guide
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Decent Opsec Guide.

I recently put together a detailed opsec guide that covers practical steps for reducing your digital footprint, securing communications, and avoiding common pitfalls people make when trying to stay private online.

The goal was to create something that’s actually useful and not just the usual “use a vpn and tor” advice. I tried to break down realistic methods that can help both beginners and people already familiar with opsec.

Id love to get some feedback from the community - what’s missing, what could be improved, and if there’s anything you disagree with.

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ll read through this. I’m teaching a free class on cybersec / opsec to members of local activist organizations starting next month, so resources like this are potentially really useful.

      • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyzEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        UPDATE:

        I’ve had a chance to read through it.

        • It’s short, to the point, an easy read, covers a lot of bases. I think that makes it an excellent starting point for people at the beginning of their journey.
        • It doesn’t contain a lot of specific information, but I think it’s a good thing to have literature that’s just a general overview as a starting point.
        • Stylometry is far from an exact science (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11707938/). However, I bet this won’t stop the current administration from using it (and possibly falsely accusing people because of it), so it’s good to know about.
        • This will be extremely useful as I’m creating my lesson plan and I will probably pop it out to the class on day one as suggested reading.

        Overall: Great resource and very timely. Thank you.

        I would add, that if you’re planning to make a lot of use of tor, and run tor hidden services locally, syncing the Monero block chain over tor (possibly to multiple local machines) and solo mining on old slow computers is a great way to generate a bunch of random tor traffic.