Re: Security tips - Draft almost ready

[Sylvia Sánchez <lailahfsf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

Are you sure it's not so easy to install programmes from a third party repository or a website?  I don't think so.  I have Telegram and another thing that is just clicking on it and runs.  I just downloaded them from a website.  And adding a third party repository like Russian Fedora or Google is just downloading a RPM from somewhere and install it. It's not even needed a console anymore, Gnome Software or Yumex does it for you, it's just entering your admin password.

About passwords, it DOES help.  Your thieves are specialised ones, kind of hackers, but most of them just steal something of value to resell, the farther they can go is erasing everything to install some illegal Windows.  And even that is too much, most of time they just make up and excuse and trade the device. Buyers can do whatever they want afterwards.  So maybe you loss everything, but at least you didn't give away your personal stuff.

About app permissions...  Do you use any social media?  Did it ever happened to you that a website asks you to use your email/FB/Twitter/whatever account and then oh! surprise! it starts doing strange stuff once you granted it?  No?  It happened to me until I learned to read the small letters below whenever a website or webapp requests permissions.  And it happens over and over to many people all over the world because most of them DON'T read the little letters.  And even that, some webs or webapps misbehave anyway.

About the web chapter, your suggestions are perfect, thanks for pointing me out.  I'll add them.

Cheers and thanks,

Sylvia

On 23 August 2016 at 10:45, Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/23/2016 09:54 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:

Hello everybody!

Here's the link to the draft, I think is almost ready but if anyone has an
idea to add, feel free to do so.  Besides that, it needs some format and
images, and probably some edition too?

https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=14015&preview_id=14015

Looking forward to know your thoughts.

Some remarks:

Points 1-3 seems to be related to mobile phones (Android?). We don't have any app permissions on Fedora/Linux.

Point 4 - 8 - password does no help you by any mean. If someone stole your laptop it can be booted to runlevel 0 - rescue mode and you don't need any password then. You can read all data. Only thing which helps you it's home dir (or whole drive) encryption, which is also mandatory for all laptops owned by various companies.

Point 10 - if you have skills to install third party code on linux you probably know what you're doing. It's no so easy as on Windows.

"While surfing the world wide web…" chapter
- those tips may help you, but there are far more important ones:

1. Always have your browser up-to date, use the latest one
2. Don't install extensions from unknown sources, use official store.
3. Don't visit suspicious web sites (warez, p0rn, etc...) because those usually contain malware/trojans. If you need to do so, use browser private mode and/or sandboxed browser.

I'd also shorten the article/tips to increase readability.

ma.

Cheers,
Sylvia



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