SECURITY | PRIVACY | MEDIUM | PROPER OpSec
How to Secure Your Anonymous Medium Account
Follow the steps below if you want a truly private and secure account
I was inspired by a discussion I had with Benighted in the comment section of this article of mine and by another story I read by Jewels Of Denial to write an article about proper privacy & security -henceforth OpSec- for those of you who have a pen or anonymous account.
As a rule of thumb the stronger the OpSec the harder it is to use. So there are multiple OpSec levels. One extreme is Google and Facebook, which know more about you than what Stasi knew about the persons they breathed closest down their neck.
Let’s rate their OpSec = 0 and their ease of use as 9. These two companies are data harvesters that invest top dollar to know everything about you so that they can make even more money. Your personal data and habits are their currency.
The other extreme is to use the Linux Tails OS which runs on a disposable USB stick only, along with the highly secure Tor Browser, a PGP app for sending encrypted e-mails, a secure VPN like Proton’s VPN for when connection speed is of the essence, Proton’s own e-mail service, DuckDuckGo as a search engine, and finally Signal for instant messaging.
