The below are examples of tying the camel.
However the trusting in Allah, which is the greatest protection, comes from our Salah,
our dhikr, salawat and prayers. Lose that and you lose more than your privacy and security.
These are measures everyone can take for themselves to protect themselves and others.
Don't go crazy and try to start using them all at once.
You may not want to use any.
I would suggest you start with one, see how it works for you and then carry on, one at a time.
You may wish to take your time to do your own research and reading around the things
I am suggesting below (many of which I have been implementing for myself for sometime now).
1. Cover all webcams, phone cams, etc.
2. Get DashLane to protect your passwords : https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bb7b40d
3. Use Telegram instead of WhatsApp : https://telegram.org/
4. PeerBlock : http://peerblock.com/
6. DoNotTrackMe : http://www.abine.com/index.html
7. 'Tech Tools for Activism' : https://techtoolsforactivism.org/
8. Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/code
9. 'Privacy Badger' : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
The Edward Snowden revelations also expose that deliberate vulnerabilities that are left in much
of the technologies that we use (thanks to the NSA PRISM programme) may also allow normal hackers
and viruses to exploit them.
1. Cover all webcams, phone cams, etc.
Simple things everyone can do, to protect their 'awrah', is to make sure they stick something opaque
on top of all their webcam's, plus back and front phone camera's. I have done this on our netbook, laptops
and phones.
2. Get DashLane to protect your passwords : https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bb7b40d
For the protection of your passwords, I would recommend Dashlane, which is something my brother
worked on for its iOS, iPhone and iPad versions.
Click : https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bb7b40d to start using it for free now.
It encrypts all passwords that are stored anywhere on your computers, so even if your machine is hacked,
the passwords are still protected by the highest military grade encryption.
3. Use Telegram instead of WhatsApp : https://telegram.org/
I would also suggest people use Telegram instead of WhatsApp for private personal communication.
I use WhatsApp for groups and group messages, Telegram for all else. Telegram also works on PC, MAC and iPad.
4. PeerBlock : http://peerblock.com/
Something that I have been using for years and years, in fact longer than anything else on this email,
PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the
Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you
can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers,
computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been
"hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer,
and your computer won't try to send them anything either.
And best of all, it's free!
5. CCleaner : https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Another software I have been also using as long as PeerBlock is CCleaner
CCleaner : https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It
protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more
secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.
6. DoNotTrackMe : http://www.abine.com/index.html
Another very nifty piece of software is DoNotTrackMe : http://www.abine.com/index.html
This allows me to have masked emails.
What this means, is that if I have to register on a website, such as BBC iPlayer,
but I don't want them to have my real details, especially not my email address.
DoNotTrackMe allows me to have multiple fake emails, that they accept for registration,
but that fake email forwards emails to my real email account.
It prevents me getting unwanted SPAM mail due to registering on a particular site.
Also, if I want to no longer receive the emails, I just delete the masked email,
and the site will have no way of contacting me.
DoNotTrackMe has Android and iOS versions, as well as plug-in extensions for Mozilla Firefox browser.
7. 'Tech Tools for Activism' : https://techtoolsforactivism.org/
If you are looking to set up your own anonymous emails accounts,
blogs, websites, etc, then head on over to 'Tech Tools for Activism'
Tech Tools for Activism is a gateway to a set of tools to help campaign and organise more securely online. These include email, email lists, websites / blogs, status.net, instant messaging and VPN (virtual private network). We also provide online help and real life workshops on how to use these tools as well as a 32 page printed booklet.
The site is aimed primarily at activists and campaigners, but will be
useful to anybody interested in protecting their online privacy and
security. It is also helpful to anyone seeking alternatives to corporate
online services or wanting access to educational resources in this
area.
8. Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/code
I would also strongly suggest all the other softwares
recommended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/code
9. 'Privacy Badger' : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Especially 'Privacy Badger' : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
How is Privacy Badger different to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
Privacy
Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single
extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad
that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well
without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user; which is
produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users
rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to
decide what is and isn't tracking.
Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar
products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of
them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them
required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers.
Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't
entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous
algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing
non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be
adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give
users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do
online.
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How does Privacy Badger work?
When
you view a webpage, that page will often be made up of content from
many different sources. (For example, a news webpage might load the
actual article from the news company, ads from an ad company, and the
comments section from a different company that's been contracted out to
provide that service.) Privacy Badger keeps track of all of this. If
as you browse the web, the same source seems to be tracking your browser
across different websites, then Privacy Badger springs into action,
telling your browser not to load any more content from that source. And
when your browser stops loading content from a source, that source can
no longer track you. Voila!
At a more technical level, Privacy Badger keeps note of the "third
party" domains that embed images, scripts and advertising in the pages
you visit. If a third party server appears to be tracking you without
permission, by using uniquely identifying cookies to collect a record of
the pages you visit across multiple sites, Privacy Badger will
automatically disallow content from that third party tracker. In some
cases a third-party domain provides some important aspect of a page's
functionality, such as embedded maps, images, or fonts. In those cases
Privacy Badger will allow connections to the third party but will screen
out its tracking cookies.
EFF's technology development and research projects aim to improve the
rights of free expression, security, and privacy on the internet. All
of our work is released under free and open source licenses such as the
GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses. We welcome your
code patches and other contributions!
HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension that ensures you use HTTPS to the greatest extent possible, for sites that support HTTPS. It is part of our larger mission to Encrypt the Web in its entirety.
MyTube protects people's privacy from third-party video hosting providers.
As soon as your browser loads a page with embedded video, it contacts
the video provider and may receive a tracking cookie from the provider.
MyTube is a bit of JavaScript code to stop the automatic load, and
provides a Play button to load the video.
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