Counter-OSINT & privacy guide: how to protect your personal data

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1. ▶️ Introduction
2. ❓ Why is it important
3. 🛁 Basic digital hygiene
   1. ☎️ Phone number
   2. 📧 Email address
   3. 📛 First, last, middle name, DOB
   4. 📍 Physical address and geolocation
   5. 🔑 Password
   6. 🖼️ Photo
4. 💧 Data leaks and breaches, "probiv"
   1. 🔎 Determining the source of a leak
   2. 🐦 Canary tokens
   3. Making breaches useless
5. 📱 Phone privacy
6. 🌐 Privacy of social networks and messengers
   1. Facebook
   2. Telegram
   3. VKontakte
   4. Instagram
7. Privacy for software developers
8. ⚠️ Last but not least
   1. Linking a phone number to an account
   2. Removing information about yourself
   3. Screen sharing
9. ex-USSR specifics
   1. 🇷🇺 Russia
   2. 🇺🇦 Ukraine
   3. 🇧🇾 Belarus
   4. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
10. Latin America
    1. 🇧🇷 Brasil

Authors and Contributors

Soxoj

Ramingo

Alexandre Santos

Dukera

License

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