The internet is a wild place. Practically ever click you make is now recorded, archived, and analyzed by a computer somewhere in order to predict your consumer behavior or enforce the laws of the nation state. The moment you put a computer on the internet, it is likely to be probed for vulnerabilities by viruses and crackers hoping to conscript it into a zombie bot army.
Yikes! What is an internet user to do? These pages will help you configure your computer to prevent these attacks at the network level.
| Technology | Difficulty | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Better Web Browsing | Easy | There are a few easy things you can do to make your web browsing more secure and more private. |
| Riseup DNS | Easy | Use the Riseup DNS servers to block advertisements and prevent corporations from tracking your every movement. |
| Riseup VPN | Moderate | Securely route your traffic through riseup.net in order to help prevent spying and attacks on the content of your internet traffic (includes Riseup DNS). |
| Tor | Hard | Tor is like VPN, but your traffic is bounced around the internet to many nodes to make it more anonymous. |
Better Web Browsing¶
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Riseup VPN¶
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- Change your MAC Address: change the hardware address of your device for added anonymity.
- Tor Anonymized Internet: Tor is like the VPN, but traffic is routed through several nodes before going out to the normal internet. This creates a higher degree of anonymity, but is slower and can be more difficult to use.
- Distributed encrypted communications software
