Digital Hygiene

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39 points·yamrzou··7 comments

If you live with other people, they also need to exhibit digital hygiene, eg no point being all buttoned up if you have kids running who knows what they found on some site or a spouse who is running stock Chrome and leaking data to their collection infrastructure.

Convincing people to take on a degree of inconvenience for something nebulous-sounding like "privacy" can be a hard sell.

> ... no point being all buttoned up if you have kids running who knows what ...

Privacy is not binary. Therefore, it is very likely that even if other people do not practice good privacy practices, practicing them already increases personal control over one's information.

It is very requirement heavy to imagine a theoretical situation where the behaviour of those around you perfectly mitigates 100% of your own digital hygiene.

NextdNS or a similar service on the router is a big help with coralling family member risk.

Is this min ting Credit cards a us thing? I’ve never heard of it outside the comment sections of Reddit and hacker news.

Is it something the bank does or is it a third party that “replicates” my CC issued by my bank?

Does digital hygiene not mean "more time outside, less thinking about computers"? But okay, once you do need to use a computer, this kind of OpSec described here makes sense.

Signal does not yet support disappearing messages after 90 days, which is rather unfortunate. For our main family chat, four weeks (the signal maximum) is perceived as too short, so we have not enabled disappearing messages there.

No idea why Signal doesn't match WhatsApp with a 90-day disappearing messages option.

Dropping LIDAR from autonomous vehicles has to be one of the most criminally stupid decisions in business.

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