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Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question:

Is there a simple guide or steps that I can follow to make myself anonymous? I know there is TOR and VPNs, how can I go about setting it up?

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Here are two good how-tos on the subject:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-...

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-10-mi...

Awesome, thanks!

I think it's time that we as a community really start putting effort into security. Making tools that people can use is so important, Tor is not really a plug and play system. If Grandma can't do it, then it's not good enough.

This is pretty much the only way to ensure any remote privicy (sometimes).

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

This might be a good starting place for you.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-min...

That just moves the problem

It moves it from an entity that is highly motivated to monetize the customer's information to one whose business is to do the opposite.

Which could change at any time - the business could be acquired, subpoenaed, etc.

You can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider.

Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.

When there is something that can be monetized, an MBA will eventually find it.

I'd recommend a VPN service called Private Internet Access. StrongVPN was the one I used to use. Either way, you don't have to set anything up on your smartphone or computer so long as they support your OS with an application.

It's still beta, but if you'd like a (more) private Evernote (assuming you even have note-taking as part of your flow), check out Turtl (turtlapp.com).

Disclosure: I built it.

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