I'd like to break this out of the previous thread if you don't mind. You guys are piling up gold, and i think it could become useful. Please excuse my large scissors: The quotes are heavily but hopefully respectfully edited. Like you i believe you said Ralf, i think it's better to dump the "activist" word, but i think it could be fair to say "users facing malign counter-interests" ?
I Propose there will be a wiki page created, with useful thoughts and good cyberhygenia practices for creative humans. lukefromdc wrote: >>>> Category: *Graphics, Audio, Video:* > The critical issues are photo editing with removal of EXIF metadata, video > editing with a stable version of Kdenlive, and (easiest) audio editing using > Audacity, which is simpler to use than Ardour and has never had phone > home code in it. > get > all the clips into encrypted storage and wipe the camera card with random > numbers. > > stay entirely out of the widely circulated hardware > and OS databases kept by the ad networks and subject at any time to subpeona > or simply purchase by any nation's security agencies. This is the reason for > the > extreme amount of browser lockdown. If Firefox gets useless, I suppose I > could > simply add all of Disconnect's blocklist to /etc/hosts and use Rekonq with JS > disabled by default, opening only known safe sites with JS enabled and > boycotting > any site that mixes necessary with unsafe JS. >>>> Category: *System-wide* > There is also the very complex browser security issue, not one browser is > anywhere near secure by default except for torbrowser. None the less > I will offer tips for securing Firefox (...) > Probably I will have to recommend that Firefox be pinned at > installation of 15.10 or older and warn that this means no security updates. Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>>> Category: Category *System-wide hygenia:* > The best hint for > unexperienced computer users doing journalism subject to malign > counter-interest, > is not to use a computer for journalism at all. >> It might be useful to clarify some issues with browsers, e.g: >> - Problems with auto-completion of search engines, safe browsing, >> but also when a sandbox is useful or not. >> - Why wrong usage of >> encryption and signing is more dangerous, then being aware that >> data isn't safe. >> A high level of security and a user-friendly OOTB average desktop >> experience are mutually exclusive. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
