This is the hardest problem. No feasible way to download & open attachments on Microsoft OS and have that machine be safe. Windows has been and is a security nightmare. Forward/open all attachments in: an iPad or iPhone or a Chromebook. On Windows, only open them in Google Drive.
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Are you, like most journalists and activists, reaching out to people via Twitter DM? Your immediate move for (non-anonymous) conversation is: "Hey, can we move to Signal or WhatsApp"? Do not chatter on unencrypted Twitter DM. Twitter is too easy to hack, still no security key.
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Concerned with giving out your phone number? Get a second one. Here's a guide. You can get a second phone number on most phones via apps pretty easily for max $10 a month. Worth every penny. Also good to separate work/life.https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-phone-number/ …
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When/if your Twitter account gets hacked, it's not your public tweets that pose a danger. Your DM conversation can be screenshotted and taken out of context for viral misinformation campaigns. DO NOT MAKE BAD JOKES ON DM. Do not chatter on Twitter DM until Twitter fixes security.
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Travel with a Chromebook. Chromebooks are hardest to hack by design, and easiest to wipe. You can literally wipe it with a shortcut key. Here's Google's help page (which sucks, as usual because Google can't invest in help pages
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Give your Chromebook its own Gmail account, not your usual one, and use everything else in incognito window while traveling. If your browser crashes or computer runs out of power, there is nothing there to recover, really.
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Anyone at risk: do not use an Android phone. You can literally cough in the direction of one to get access. Android security is a nightmare. On the other hand, iPhones and iPads are stellar, *stellar* security wise. Get the cheapest one you can afford (past 5s). Just do it.
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An iPhones and iOs devices, learn about backup options and think them through. A lot of things are backed up automatically, which means you can dowload them back if you lose the device, but also means Apple could provide access. Individual decision on each. Ponder it all.
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For example, I backup all my iOs photos to the cloud. I don't back up any chats. I lose a phone, I lose all my chats. I thought about this long and hard, and decided this was the best option for me. My pics are memories/places/people and nothing ever that would be a threat to me.
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Are you an org that does high-risk work? I mean, anything that touches politics? Threatens any organized group? Pisses of 4chan or a government? I'd GET OFF EMAIL AND SLACK (GET OFF BOTH!) and move all chater to Signal or WhatsApp on iOS devices: Ipads/phones with keyboards.
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