“Have you ever figured how information-rich your stool is? There are about 100 billion bacteria per gram. Each bacterium has DNA whose length is typically one to 10 megabases—call it 1 million bytes of information. This means human stool has a data capacity of 100,000 terabytes of information stored per gram. That’s more data than in a chip in your smartphone or computer. So your stool is far more interesting than a computer”.
- Prof. Larry Smarr

• Trust the community, trust open source!
• Browser: Firefox - trusted, flexible (open source), privacy friendly.
• Search Engine: DuckDuckGo or Start Page - the search engine that doesn't track you.
• Browser Plugins:Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and Ublock origin
• Using public wifi? Use Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Anonimity: Tor is your friend.

• Yes EVERYTHING!
• Disk Encryption: Most of the modern operating systems these days allow you to easily encrypt computer hard disc and phone.
• Email Encryption: Use GPG (Thunderbird + Enigmail)
• Too difficult? No problem! Use Mailvelope
• Cloud encryption: Spideroak for storage, and Onionshare for sharing files of any size.
• Pro Tip: You can always find a secure, privacy-friendly, open source version for almost any of your favourite software/service/platform.

• Be aware and be responsible!
• Passwords are evil: Use password managers.
• Hackers are devil: Use two-factor authentication everywhere possible.
• Change* your passwords regularly!
• Check whether you have been PWNED
• Occasionally scan for malware with Malwarebytes or similar tools.

• Which means,
• Freedom to be different: Defend yourself against tracking
• Freedom to have secrets: keep your information private
• Freedom not to be manipulated: Don't fall for the filter bubble
• Freedom not to be labelled: Fight against profiling
• Freedom to stay anonymous: Defend yourself against online surveillance