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  • quartz242 [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    HOly shit, the new "23 rules for life" by Jordan B. Peterson just dropped.

    1. Don't reveal your first or last name, no matter how common. Don't reveal your exact place of residence.

    2. Remove unnecessary fields from links (the text in a link that comes after ? and each field is separated from the next by a &). They often contain unique IDs for a specific click or webpage, which can be traced back to you.

    3. Don't post youtube videos below which you commented; Don't post youtube videos embedded in your playlist.

    4. Don't link social media to your discord/social media profiles unless with the intention to mislead.

    5. Don't post facebook links whatsoever, as people will hit the like button and soft-doxx themselves, and it can be seen which people are watching a stream, including yourself.

    6. Don't share artists, musicians, friends from real life, or other people who have a small circle of people around them, of which you are a part. often it can be guessed which one of the fans/friends is you. This includes fundraisers and art projects by your real-life friends: do not share them.

    7. Don't be too open about your personal life on political servers. Compartimentalize your political activism and emotional needs to different environments.

    8. Have friends outside the left that will be there for you in case you get cancelled or otherwise ostracized.

    9. Regularly google yourself and delete as much info as you can, then have google delete the links to that info. Do the same for Bing and Yandex.

    10. Regularly wipe your old discord convos using DeleteDiscordMessages.js

    11. Check the URLs to your online profiles - often they contain a username you thought you had changed long ago.

    12. Regularly spread false but unimportant info about yourself, especially on public platforms and profiles.

    13. Never send Microsoft Office documents that you created - they contain your name in the metadata.

    14. Never open a google doc in a non-private window - others will see your name in the 'currently editing' field.

    15. Use browser plugins to spoof your useragent and location, block cookies, and perform fake google searches.

    16. If there is a browser version available of a program/app you would have to install otherwise, use the browser version. E.g. discord, facebook, twitter. Installed executables/apps have access to much more information about your system.

    17. When joining hostile online environments (with e.g. political opponents), use an alt-account; hostile individuals have an incentive to doxx you.

    18. Use different account names and passwords on every site, and edit your discord name to something different on every server. Regularly change your profile picture as well. This way it is a lot more difficult for people to pass around screenshots of your messages or to keep track of your identity.

    19. Always be connected through a VPN, and ideally through a private browser window - make it more difficult for the owners of your WiFi network to see what you are doing.

    20. Remove all political content from your electronic devices when you expect they will be searched, e.g. when crossing a country border or at demonstrations.

    21. Do not talk about your activism to people when it does not clearly benefit the activism to do so.

    22. Make sure you can trust someone before talking with them about sensitive info. If they compliment you a lot, that does not mean you can trust them.

    23. Never send screenshots on impulse; always crop out the exact area of the screenshot that you want to share. Always check that no personally identifiable information is visible on your screenshot, e.g. in the tabs or bookmarks of your browser.

    Thanks @PeachFreezer1312

    • Importantguy123 [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Do not talk about your activism to people when it does not clearly benefit the activism to do so.

      Fuck... so I should delete that post I made about graffiti/irl opsec huh? god damnit

    • luigi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Regularly google yourself and delete as much info as you can, then have google delete the links to that info. Do the same for Bing and Yandex.

      How would I go about deleting those links (in search results)? Is this to do with the EU's "right to be forgotten" or is there another way?

      @PeachFreezer1312

      Thanks for the tips.

        • luigi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Thanks.

          I'm in the UK so I may have missed the boat on the EU approach lol.

          There's one link with my name showing next to a username I have elsewhere. I removed the name from the site (unfortunately there's no option to delete the account), but it's still showing in the search snippet and the cache. The process for removing seems to only apply to deliberate doxxing, which this isn't. I could try it anyway.

          Edit: Maybe the "outdated info" removal could work, since the page doesn't contain the info now.

          Do you think it would be possible to wait it out and hope the Googlebot updates the search result any time soon, with the updated page that has my name removed? It's on quite a niche website.