4种在线保护自己的方法

It’s time to build privacy into your app stack.

现在是时候在您的应用程序堆栈中建立隐私了。

Online scams are rife and a mere three clicks away as any digital native parked in cyberspace will know. Even more so now that the economy is making a downturn, and with plenty of opportunists waiting to liberate unsuspecting victims from their liquid cash.

网上停车的任何数字本地人都将知道，在线骗局非常猖and，只需单击三下即可。 如今，经济正处于低迷状态，更多的机会主义者正等待从毫无疑问的现金中释放毫无戒心的受害者。

Within the past few months alone, I was contacted by a friendly impersonator over Facebook messenger, had unauthorised payments made on my Skype account and had an unauthorised login to my Evernote. Troublesome, isn’t it?

仅在过去的几个月内，一个友好的模仿者就通过Facebook Messenger与我联系，在我的Skype帐户上进行了未经授权的付款，并未经授权地登录了我的Evernote。 很麻烦，不是吗？

Just as you would set up basic security features in your home, the same should be done to protect how we perform functions and transactions online. At the very least, it’s simple cyber hygiene for everyone.

就像您在家里设置基本安全功能一样，也应该这样做以保护我们在线执行功能和交易的方式。 至少，这对每个人来说都是简单的网络卫生。

Here are 4 services that I use to enhance my personal security online and that I have found to do the job. Being generally pro-minimalist, I am also aware how this advocates adding more stuff to one’s life, and I get it. Less is more. But for everyone who works and socialises online, security is definitely more in the category of a ‘need’ rather than ‘want’.

以下是我用来增强我的在线人身安全的4种服务，这些服务我已经找到了做的。 作为一般的极简主义者，我也意识到这是如何提倡为自己的生活增加更多东西的，我也明白这一点。 少即是多。 但是对于每个在线工作和社交的人来说，安全绝对是“需要”而非“想要”的范畴。

虚拟专用网 (VPN)

By now you would surely have heard about VPN — a virtual private network — that makes your public Internet connection private. It prevents people from tracking your online activity, which is essential if you are on an unsecured public network such as in a library, hotel or airport, and need to perform vulnerable transactions. It is also extremely useful to bypass location-based restrictions such as accessing Netflix Japan to watch all the anime possible, or BBC channels.

到现在为止，您肯定已经听说过VPN(一种虚拟专用网络)，它使您的公共Internet连接变为专用。 它可以防止人们跟踪您的在线活动，如果您使用的是不安全的公共网络(例如在图书馆，酒店或机场中)并且需要执行易受攻击的交易，则这是至关重要的。 绕过基于位置的限制(例如访问Netflix Japan观看所有可能的动漫或BBC频道)也非常有用。

While the jury is still out on whether airline companies actually track your search history to increase flight prices, I have personally found that using a VPN has prevented the prices from jumping at every search I make. More than Google’s incognito mode, which by the way, was studied to be not so incognito after all according to this Reader’s Digest article. But this is just my anecdotal take.

虽然对于航空公司是否真正跟踪您的搜索历史以提高机票价格尚无定论，但我个人发现，使用VPN可以防止我每次搜索时价格都上涨。 顺便说一下，根据这篇《 读者文摘》的文章 ，毕竟Google的隐身模式还不算是那么隐身。 但这只是我的轶事。

Now, choosing the best VPN is a personal choice, but you would definitely want a company that doesn’t keep any logged data on its own servers. I found That One Privacy Guy to have done the ultimate work regarding VPN comparison with privacy education thrown in, so take a look there.

现在，选择最佳的VPN是个人选择，但是您肯定希望一家公司不要在其自己的服务器上保留任何记录的数据。 我发现那个隐私权人已经完成了VPN比较和隐私权教育方面的终极工作，所以在那里看看。

I chose NordVPN, it’s not free, but you get what you pay for. Integrating it into my flow has been seamless and I now barely notice it running in the background.

我选择了NordVPN，它不是免费的，但是您可以付钱。 将其无缝集成到我的流程中，现在我几乎没有注意到它在后台运行。

私人搜寻 (Private searching)

Internet users have come to accept the inevitable trade-off between our user data and ads for convenience and results. But there are alternatives, and since they are available, why not use them? I admit, I have not found the perfect browsing solution and in practice, I launch different browsers on my mobile based on different needs because hey, if you can’t beat them, you might as well confuse them? So instead of pointing you to one solution, here are a few that I have found useful beyond Google.

互联网用户已经开始接受用户数据和广告之间不可避免的权衡取舍，以获取便利和结果。 但是有替代方案，既然有替代方案，为什么不使用它们呢？ 我承认，我没有找到理想的浏览解决方案，实际上，我是根据不同的需求在手机上启动不同的浏览器的，因为嘿，如果您无法击败它们，您还可能会混淆它们吗？ 因此，除了向您提供一种解决方案之外，我还发现了一些除Google之外有用的解决方案。

The first alternative service I recommend would be the do-good Ecosia, which plants trees in exchange for your searches. It is based on Microsoft’s Bing and I use Ecosia for music and other fun, aesthetic searches because I get uncommon and unpopular results. Here are my stats:

我推荐的第一个替代服务是优质的Ecosia ，它会种树以换取您的搜索。 它基于Microsoft的Bing，我使用Ecosia进行音乐和其他有趣的美学搜索，因为我得到的结果不常见且不受欢迎。 这是我的统计信息：

I planted 20 trees with Ecosia, yay.

我和Ecosia一起种了20棵树。

But if privacy is your primary concern, your can consider Tor, for the most hardcore anonymity, such as if you have a question you want to know the answer to but don’t want to ever be reminded about asking it.

但是，如果您最关心的是隐私，则可以考虑使用Tor来获得最严格的匿名性，例如，如果您有一个问题想知道答案，但又不想被问到。

Just an example.

只是一个例子。

But what I like about Brave is that I can also use Tor freely in a private window if I need to, and also take part in Brave’s blockchain-based Basic Attention Token (BAT) ad-tech experiment.

但是我喜欢Brave的地方在于，我可以根据需要在私有窗口中自由使用Tor，还可以参与Brave基于区块链的基本注意力令牌 (BAT)广告技术实验。

The premise of the experiment is that users give up our privacy data in exchange for accessing certain web content. Why not exchange BAT instead? The utility token is based off the Ethereum blockchain and rewards users directly for their attention and you can tip those ads or sites that you like.

实验的前提是用户放弃我们的隐私数据以换取访问某些Web内容的权利。 为什么不换BAT？ 实用程序令牌基于以太坊区块链，直接奖励用户的关注度，您可以给自己喜欢的广告或网站小费。

Brave (and Tor) also offer additional VPN you can subscribe to but I recommend decoupling the two services as web browsing is not the only activity that you do online.

勇敢的人(和Tor)还提供了您可以订阅的其他VPN，但我建议将这两项服务分离，因为Web浏览不是您在线进行的唯一活动。

密码管理员 (Password manager)

Ever wasted time retrieving lost passwords, only to lose it again? I’ve been there and now I use an encrypted password manager to manage all my passwords and I recommend you to do the same.

是否曾经浪费时间找回丢失的密码，却又一次丢失了密码？ 我去过那里，现在我使用加密的密码管理器来管理我的所有密码，建议您也这样做。

Not only does a password manager make logging to sites a breeze, it is also more secure because they auto-generate strong passwords for you. I’ve definitely run out of incredible memorable password combinations featuring a capital and small letters, symbols and numbers, so having this feature was a plus for me. They even highlight reused passwords (how my Skype and Evernote accounts were compromised), and remind you when you haven’t updated your passwords in a while, a practice which is highly recommended.

密码管理器不仅使登录网站变得轻而易举，而且由于它们会自动为您生成强密码，因此更加安全。 我肯定用不完令人难以忘怀的密码组合，这些组合具有大写字母，小写字母，符号和数字，因此具有此功能对我来说是个加号。 他们甚至会突出显示重复使用的密码(我的Skype和Evernote帐户受到了怎样的危害)，并在一段时间内未更新密码时提醒您，强烈建议您这样做。

The two big contenders in the space are LastPass (which I use), and 1Password. I use LastPass because they have a free version that works perfectly fine for mine and most personal uses.

空间中的两个主要竞争者是LastPass (我使用的是)和1Password 。 我使用LastPass是因为它们有一个免费版本，非常适合我和大多数个人使用。

It did take a little while to get used to the new habit, but now that a password manager is firmly in my life, I cannot imagine operating without it.

习惯了一段时间后才习惯了这种新习惯，但是现在密码管理器已经扎根在我的生活中，我无法想象没有它就会进行操作。

Now, the only password you’ll have to remember is the one that logs onto the password manager.

现在，您唯一需要记住的密码就是登录密码管理器的密码。

加密的电子邮件 (Encrypted email)

Ready for the next level in badass personal online security? Use an encrypted email service such as ProtonMail. I am still easing myself into this as porting over to a new email address is akin to moving house. But it’s so far, so good, and I can see myself compartmentalising a portion of my life using an exclusively encrypted email service.

准备好进入Badass个人在线安全的下一个台阶了吗？ 使用加密的电子邮件服务，例如ProtonMail 。 我仍然很轻松，因为移植到新的电子邮件地址类似于搬家。 但是到目前为止，一切都很好，我可以看到自己使用独家加密的电子邮件服务来分隔我的生活。

However, sending and receiving encrypted emails will not prevent you from phishing scams so due diligence is still required before you open any suspicious links or give up personal data over email.

但是，发送和接收加密的电子邮件不会阻止您进行网络钓鱼诈骗，因此在打开任何可疑链接或通过电子邮件放弃个人数据之前，仍需要进行尽职调查。

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翻译自: https://medium.com/swlh/4-ways-to-protect-yourself-online-f4097f6939a2