Hello people

From a online security perspective, how viable is the total online passivity tactic against hacking, phishing and whatever else there is of threats and tracking online?

In that concept i mean: to stay as a lurker on the social medias, only posting extremely sparse.

If you get random mails from the bank or other instances you dont follow the links, but rather either phones them, or manually goes to the companys page and loggs in to see if there are any messages on the internal inbox or anything that pops up when logging in.

With the thought in mind, that you cant get attacked, if they dont know you are there, how viable is this tactic?

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Fido2 hardware keys. Yubikey is great

    Bit warden.

    Move the phone number for SMS verification over to Google voice, or Google Fi. Lock down that Google account using the fido2 hardware keys. This basically insulates you from sim jacking for SMS two-factor attacks. Google advanced account protection

    If you can afford it, keep a Chromebook around for when you log into sensitive systems, like your investment portfolio. Don’t use the Chromebook for anything else, keep it updated. Only use it for your sensitive things. Chrome OS is very locked down, so it’s a nice secure enclave. And you can buy cheap Chromebooks, just keep them updated. Basically it stays off in your closet until you need to log into a sensitive account, then you turn it on do all the updates, then log into your sensitive account. The benefit of this is even if your main daily driver computer gets compromised, your sensitive computing environment is more secure. You’re less likely to cross contaminate

    Summary, use hardware security keys wherever you can, where you can’t use SMS attached to a phone number that can’t be simjacked, use a good password manager like bit Warden. Keep a fairly secure isolated computing environment for your sensitive activities

    For additional reading check out surveillance self-defense by the EFF https://ssd.eff.org/

    And privacy guides https://www.privacyguides.org/en/