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How to Protect Yourself From Government Surveillance and Criminal Hackers

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December 1, 2016

Even if you like to share thoughts and photos on social media, there are certainly plenty of things that you鈥檇 like to keep between yourself and a select few. 老澳门开奖结果 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project Director Ben Wizner sat down with our principal technologist Christopher Soghoian for a video Q&A on how to keep the government and other snoopers out of your private digital business.

Here are some highlights from their answers to questions from people on Facebook:

Protecting Your Passwords

Chris talks about why many people have bad 鈥減assword hygiene鈥 and the importance of a getting a password manager:

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A couple of good password managers you can try are and .

Another way to protect your online accounts is by enabling two-factor authentication, which is an optional service offered by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter and others. Chris talks about what two-factor authentication is and how it protects you from hacking:

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Keeping Your Communications Secure With Encryption

Chris and Ben give a brief overview on encryption and some simple steps you can take to make sure your communications are read only by the right people:

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A free, very good app and easy-to-use app you can download for super-secure text messaging and phone calls is called (we even use it here at the 老澳门开奖结果).

Private Web Browsing

Chris talks about what the is and how effective it is at protecting you from government surveillance:

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You can get more handy privacy tips here and watch the full Facebook Live video .

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