You’re probably not exposed to the big internet. But that’s no excuse for poor security. I’d look up a hardening guide for your operating system.
You should also look up hardening guides for any applications you plan to run, and follow simple security measures like not logging in as root/admin, strong passwords, 2FA.
Not to say you’re at risk, but its good practice to make secure your default. Doing this will help you understand the basics of system security and the risks that systems have.
Might be janky, but if you really wanted this for free you could get a speech to text program like futo, play the video and have it transcribe it and save it to a text file, then copy and paste in the subtitles
Ooookay… Took me a second to wrap my head around the layout… Originally I only looked at the picture, which only shows a single switch.
This is an odd topography. Typically when working with switches, you want them connecting directly to the router and not connected to another switch.
You are going to have bandwidth issues out the ass, along with having a troubleshooting nightmare when something goes wrong and you need to trace packets.
Right now you have a hub and a spoke inside a hub and spoke.
Since it looks like your Asus is just an AP in this scenario, you’d be better off:
You can then play around with VLANing on the managed switch. You won’t be able to separate IoT and Personal WiFi signals with VLAN. Youd need to create a guest SSID for that functionality and change the channels to 6 and 11 so you get good bandwidth
Edit: this is assuming you have a layer 3 switch, if its a layer 2 I would use the Asus as a router/AP and hook it directly to the ISP router and hook the switch up to the Asus.
GraphineOS sandboxes google services. You can take it a step further and only install sandboxed google services on a work profile or user profile so you can have toggle-able google services, allowing bank access and whatnot.
Depends on your definition of safe.
If you do a public port forward and set up basic security and proper SSL its safe from the majority of people.
Looks like it’ll work. You should look into flashing that router with openwrt or pfsense and VLANing off those smart devices… They can be a security issue.
Also adding a second AP that you place on a different channel for guest and untrusted devices would work and increase bandwidth, but adds some routing complexity.
Yea, I haven’t played with it too much. You’ll ever have to host your own SMTP server to send it or use gmail or protons SMTP service.
Doing it yourself might cause big companies to send your mail to spam or possibly just drop the packets cause you’re not using a trusted IP, have the wrong DNS settings, etc. and your ISP may even block port 25
This can be circumvented by using a SMTP relay service but can still have some issues like mail sending limits.
I would have a failsafe, like use a major email provider for emails that you need to go through for like work order government stuff.
Hosting your own email is a great learning experience and is fun to do; but your emails will get marked as spam, you’ll have to constantly perform maintenance, and have major reliability issues.
Most of the issues youll have are fine for personal use, but is dicey if you plan to migrate 100%
Edit: receiving email is less of an issue of sending. The forwarder should be reliable, however, its the sending from the forwarding address that would possibly be an issue.
I’m just saying that collaboration with or association with spooks or glowies isn’t in itself a red flag.
Many privacy and freedom granting software is made by these people.
Take Tor for example, made by the navy to hide information from the public and anonymously attack networks of adversaries… Yet now is the NSA’s biggest obstacle in mass surveillance.
And I’m sure you only use twofish because the NSA backdoored AES when they standardized it.
Since its for school you’ll want it to be reliable and to work 100% of the time. I’d just get a big brand and not connect it to the internet if you don’t want your data collected.
Other than that you can try to block the telemetry at the DNS level by VPN to your home with a pihole instance or using a private DNS.
If you really don’t wanna use apple or google OS, then best bet is to buy the tablet for the hardware and try to flash a different OS. But then you’ll risk it not working very well or having app compatibility issues.
I disagree. Firefox is fine, but saying chromium is spyware because its primarily maintained by google is like saying android is spyware.
Additionally chromium browsers are arguably more secure than Firefox, and has more advanced sand boxing. So much so that graphine OS used chromium instead of Firefox for their vanadium browser.
Only thing I agree with is not using brave… Cause well… They fishy.
Repost bots can help siphon users from reddit and make it easier to transition.
This is straight from their privacy policy:
We do not sell your personal information in a way that most people would think of as a sale. However, we do participate in online targeted advertising and use analytics which allows tech companies, in exchange for our use of their services, to use user information collected from our App to improve their own products and to improve the services they provide to others. Under some laws, this is considered our “sale” of your user data to third parties. You can opt-out of this as provided in the “How to Submit a Request” section below.
While this is good for survielience circumventing… It is looking like the beginning of the end of DNS filtering and the popularization of encrypted telemetry.
Forcing the older generation to change from a service that works perfectly fine to another one that isn’t as polished and isn’t a houshould name is a loosing battle.
I’d just bring up privacy concerns from time to time and suggest ways to increase their privacy when they ask for advice.
I created an account while in the store with an email of fuckyou@thisisstupid.com and a basic password and surprisingly didn’t have to verify the email. Then turned on a VPN to my house.
I plan on just creating a new account every time I go in just to fill up their database with nonsense.
Buy a pixel off marketplace then. You can brag about saving e-waste.
Google isn’t a bad company, just a product of poor regulation. They have amazing engineers and produce valuable hardware and that should be praised.
Its the business side of things which needs massive regulation and an ethics check.