Learn how to stop websites from tracking you, use TOR and VPNs, encrypt your chats and calls & send emails anonymously
What you'll learn
- Stop websites from tracking you
- Access blocked websites
- Stop your computer and web browser from leaking your personal information
- Use TOR to mask your identity online
- Use VPNs for faster, safer online experience
- Choose which country you want your online traffic to originate from
- Send emails anonymously
- Stop companies from selling your email address to spammers and cluttering up your inbox
- Use virtual machines to deal with suspicious files without harming your computer
- Encrypt your online chats so that eavesdroppers can't read them
- Use services that encrypt your phone calls and text messages
- Make it harder for hackers to compromise your system
- Learn about an Operating System that is built with security and anonymity in mind
Requirements
- How to use a PC/Mac
- How to install softwares
- How to browse the internet
Description
Every day, advertising companies track our every move and bombard us with "relevant" advertisements at the expense of our privacy, ISPs and government entities in some countries stop us from visiting social networking sites and other harmless sites that don't conform to their ideology by censoring online content and hackers try to steal our data and hack our accounts for their own gain or just for the lulz.Packed with step-by-step tutorials, screencasts and presentations, this course will teach how to stay anonymous online, how to deter private and public entities from gathering data on you and how to safeguard your online privacy against hackers; without learning to code or acquiring a computer science degree in the process!
This course will empower you and make you feel safer online.
In this course, you will learn:
- How private and public entities identify you online and how they store data on you to create a usage profile.
- How your computer and web browser is leaking tons of personal information about you and what you can do to stop that
- What proxy service and virtual private networks (VPNs) are and how to use them
- How to install and use anonymising software and services to safeguard your online identity
- How to view website that have been censored by your ISP or government
- What is virtual machine and how you can use it to deal with suspicious file that could cause harm to your computer
- How to send anonymous emails and more importantly not let companies use your email IDs to create your profile or sell your address to spammers
- How to encrypt your online chats so no eavesdropper can read it
- What services allow you to encrypt your phone calls and text messages and ensure the safety of the one device you cannot live without: your smartphone.
- Bonus Content: Overview of an entire Operating System built around anonymity and online security.
Who this course is for:
- Anybody who is bothered about the amount of information being gathered on them on a day-to-day basis by private and public entities
- Anybody who is living in a region with unnecessary online censorship
- Anybody who wants to be safer online
- No programming knowledge required
