Easy to do stuff to enhance your (online) security

You know, Edward Snowden and stuff ...

All of this can be installed with basic knowledge within minutes on a unix system. I use Ubuntu.

encrypt your data with ecryptfs-utils

Create a folder within your homes, that is ecryptet when you turn your computer off. That way, when you lose it your data is (reasonably) save.

install:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

create a folder "Private" in your homes

ecryptfs-setup-private

You will be asked to enter your Login-Password and a Passphrase (don't).
Don't enter a passphrase, a good one will be created automatically.

now go to ~/.ecryptfs (in your homes)

cd ~/.ecryptfs

and enter

ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase

to extract your passphrase.

Write down your passphrase and store it at a save place, otherwise
your data could be lost forever.

Reboot.

Now there is a folder "Private" in your homes where you can store your secret data.

Your data is only as save as your login password is good!

Install a tor browser

and use it whenever you want to surf with at least some anonymity.

https://www.torproject.org/

cd into the tor folder

 cd tor-browser_en-US/

and start tor

./start-tor-browser.desktop

Get https-everywhere for your browser

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

It's as easy as it gets. The tor browser already has it.


To be continued...