008 - Anonymity with TOR, Data Removals, and Mozilla Monitor

02/16/24 • 23 min

The Lockdown - Practical Privacy & Security

In this weeks show I discuss some of the concerns of using TOR over a VPN, and take another look at data removal from people search sites, including a look at Mozilla Monitor, a new service for data removal from the makers of Firefox. I'll also discuss the importance of freezing your credit and putting the title of your home into a revocable living trust, prior to removing your records from people search sites.

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This episode was recorded on February 16, 2024

In this week's episode:

I'm still on the road!
Anonymity with TOR and VPN
Get that Credit Freeze and Revocable Living Trust
Data Removals from people search sites
Mozilla Monitor, a new data removal service
Quick update on the Complete pfSense Setup Guide

Show Links:

Mozilla Monitor: https://monitor.mozilla.org
Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/download
DeepCorr: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3243734.3243824
Foundations of Digital Privacy, Part One: https://lockdown.media/the-foundations-of-digital-privacy

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

-George Orwell

Official Website: https://psysecure.com

Podcast music: The R3cluse

Follow on Twitter (X): @privacypod
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TheLockdown
This episode was recorded on February 16, 2024

In this week's episode:

I'm still on the road!
Anonymity with TOR and VPN
Get that Credit Freeze and Revocable Living Trust
Data Removals from people search sites
Mozilla Monitor, a new data removal service
Quick update on the Complete pfSense Setup Guide

Show Links:

Mozilla Monitor: https://monitor.mozilla.org
Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/download
DeepCorr: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3243734.3243824
Foundations of Digital Privacy, Part One: https://lockdown.media/the-foundations-of-digital-privacy

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

-George Orwell

Official Website: https://psysecure.com

Podcast music: The R3cluse

Previous Episode

IMPOSTER SYNDROME | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

In this Friday Field Notes episode of The Lockdown, I share my experience with imposter syndrome, and compare practical privacy approaches with extreme measures, inspired by my move to the USA.

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This episode was recorded on January 31, 2024

In this week's episode:

Using alias names with food apps
More on practical privacy vs the extreme
My motivations for privacy after my move to the USA
Simplewall for Windows 10
Using Virtual Machines
Dual boot Windows for gaming vs productivity
Micro-segmentation strategies
Windows 10 LTSC for privacy?
I'm the Imposter!

Show Links:

qView Image Viewer: https://interversehq.com/qview
GPG4Win: https://www.gpg4win.org/download.html
Windows 10 LTSC: https://www.cdw.com/search/?key=Windows%20LTSC
Simplewall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

-Oscar Wilde
Music: The Lockdown

Official Website: https://psysecure.com

Podcast music: The R3cluse

Next Episode

009 - Data Broker Sites and a Conversation with Lawrence Gentilello from Optery

In today's show, I have a conversation with Lawrence Gentilello, the CEO and Founder of Optery, a personal data removal service. Lawrence shares his own experiences with identity theft and what motivated him to start Optery. We also discuss the future of privacy in the United States, Utah's new privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), and the bare minimum you should be doing to protect and secure your private data.
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This episode was recorded on March 6, 2024

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In this week's episode:

Lawrence's experience with identity theft highlights the importance of a credit freeze
The need for disinformation
A reminder on hunting apps
The future of data privacy and the need for services like Optery
Data privacy in the UK and the existence of search sites like 192.com
Update on next weeks show