What does HackerNews think of macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide?
Guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS
- Fastmail (block images in email, which are often used for tracking)
- Privacy.com
1Password integrates with both of the above, so that any time I sign up for a new service it will get a random, unique email from Fastmail (masked email), a unique credit card from privacy.com, and I use 1Password to generate not only a unique, strong password but also a unique username (hence my current username here, squeegee_scream).
- sync.com for online storage. it's e2ee
- MFA everywhere it's available
- 1Blocker
- nextdns
- use privacy-respecting alternative frontends:
- use invidious instead of youtube
- libreddit or teddit instead of reddit
- nitter instead of twitter
- rotate my usernames on social sites on a regular basis. I'm really only active on reddit and HN, but I'm still concerned about being doxxed
- avoid buying things from amazon
- Signal app for communication as often as possible
Also the macOS Security and Privacy Guide may be of interest
https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
as discussed on HN last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24242890
Privacy defaults come down to usability vs. privacy; Apple making this so easy to toggle is fine by me as I care about privacy and tracking.
Now, it would be great if every macOS application walked you through privacy settings right after installation in the same way that I am offered a tour of the new features. Since there is no such "privacy tour", the community has discussed ways in which macOS can be hardened [1], [2].
1. https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
macOS Security and Privacy guide [1] also a recommendation you can try.
[0]: https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html
[1]: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
Very good also if you liked this
- https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
- https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis
- https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.s...
- https://help.apple.com/machelp/mac/10.12/index.html#/mh11389
- http://newosxbook.com/files/moxii3/AppendixA.pdf
Hope it helps!
You probably could with the same amount of effort for Windows, but at least Windows makes it more clear that it is happening.
I did find this which is interesting and helpful: