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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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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Look, it's not just that you're doing nothing wrong. Your private life is private, your bad jokes make sense only to friends, and anything can be weaponized against you. (See
@samseder case). Don't chatter on email, slack or Twitter DM. Signal or WhatsApp on iOS is your best bet.3 replies 22 retweets 60 likesShow this thread -
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WhatsApp retains metadata (who talks with whom and when) but Facebook cannot access the content because it's end-to-end encrypted. Great option for people who aren't on Signal—many people are already on WhatsApp and sometimes you can't switch people.https://twitter.com/karmel80/status/943490216668614657 …
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There is no other option on the phone market for ordinary people. If you care about security and privacy, you have to be on an iOs device. Secure enclave plus a whole bunch of other structural and hardware settings compel this choice https://twitter.com/EvansRyan202/status/943490767154307072 …
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I think I've heard you say that the Google-branded ones are better than other Android, at least in terms of staying on top of updates -- is that right?
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