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
) but it will do. https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183084?hl=en …
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I don't mean to make people paranoid! I make bad jokes on many platforms. :-D But it make sense to have a workable, reasonable security set-up hardware and software wise, and just exercise caution especially if you are a journalist/activist or anyone at risk of being targeted.
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If you like the convenience of TouchID (and your fingerprint is stored locally though I have concerns about normalizing biometrics as ID), at least remember this. You can quickly disable TouchID with five taps depending on your İphone make. Try it out.https://www.imore.com/how-quickly-disable-touch-id-when-you-need-extra-security …
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For truly high-risk work (investigating a powerful nation-state or a corporation), this is great advice. Get a second dedicated device. You can get a Chromebook for under $200. No excuse for newspaper/investigative work. Segmentation is the best security. https://twitter.com/43blah/status/943496408635764736 …
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TouchID has it uses, for sure. Guards against shoulder-surfing. But has downsides, too. I don't tell people not to use it, but consider the issue (which is explained more upthread).https://twitter.com/bitmaker_me/status/943640165230166016 …
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People, take note. Phishing attempts to journalists are basically industrialized, best defense is two-factor authentication preferably with security key—if unavailable, code generators. https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/944119363954765824?s=17 …
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