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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-not-out-to-get-you dept.

Bravely Anonymous writes:

I'm about to move and at my new address I'd like to start out more secured against my ISP and doxers/stalkers. Basically I think I should use a VPN/VPS for personal related traffic (email, shopping), another VPN/VPS for online communities, and then regular net access for random browsing (is all that overkill?). There's been articles in the past about VPN providers (feel free to recommend someone), but there's less about how to configure your network and computer to use them. I'd prefer to be able to use all three at once, but I've heard most people recommend configuring their routers to a single VPN to prevent leakage. But then one company could be logging all your traffic again or it would be easy to forget to switch to/from the VPNs. Is that necessary? Is there Linux-based software which completely restricts applications to certain networks or is that something I should manually setup through iptables and /etc network scripts? My primary OS is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and my current router runs DD-WRT, though that might change with the new ISP.

In summary, what's a good strategy to keep the different parts of your online life segregated from each other other than simply using different user names?

Thanks for your insights.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Monday October 02 2017, @05:14PM

    by crafoo (6639) on Monday October 02 2017, @05:14PM (#575990)

    Honestly, good luck. These corporations are throwing millions of dollars and armies of people towards associating everyone with a complete, global view of their online actions.

    PFSense router (recommend against linux for a router) running on some dedicated hardware, OpenVPN, and a variety of strong dynamic blocking and/or white & black listing from automated lists. Block the various well known ad servers and telemetry & trackers as well, at the firewall/router.

    VPS to route traffic you don't even want originating from your ISP IP to a VPN.

    Use a selection of VMs and OSes. I like the BSDs but there are a very few linux distros that aren't yet trash.

    Finally, block most javascript. Javascript is the cancer of www. You quickly find how worthless most sites are.

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