Edward Snowden Has Three Security Tips For You

[Laughter] [Music] outfoxing US officials has been Edward Snowden's life since taking refuge in Russia last year so when he took the stage of that South by Southwest Conference via webcast it was no surprise he had tips on digital privacy here's Tom DiFonzo with a few about we need to think about encryption is sort of arcane black art the bottom line and I repeat again that encryption does an Edward Snowden would know the now-infamous former NSA contractor appeared this month at the South by Southwest Interactive conference his first live web car since fleeing the u.s. to Russia during the stream Snowden also offered three security tips to help protect you against prying eyes on the Internet here they are encrypting your hard drive ensures your personal information stays personal from bank account details to private emails this is how you do it the max find file vault on your system preferences once enabled only uses you select will be able to unlock your drive with a password newer version of Windows comes with BitLocker which like File Vault encrypts all your files with a password plenty of third-party applications also exist that offer similar protection after searching online for something to buy don't you think it's strange that you see ads of products you've been looking at starting to appear on other sites well that's not a coincidence online retailers can see what you've been looking at so there's a good chance other people can to slowly companies are doing more to help protect you while browsing which do not track buttons but Snowden says ghostery can help too it's a plugin that works on popular browsers it shows a list of all websites tracking you and allows you to block them you can also try the search engine DuckDuckGo that unlike other search engines doesn't record or share your search results and forget browsers like Chrome or Firefox use tor it's a free network that cloaks your browsing habits and is used by criminals to mask their activities to get started download the tor browser bundle but beware it works a lot slower than normal browsers because it masks your location by passing through proxy servers around the world and there you have it three security tips from the man himself Edward Snowden

Channel: Wall Street Journal

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Keywords: Edward Snowden, Thomas DiFonzo, Deborah Kan, DIGITS, SNOWDEN, ONLINE, SECURITY, TIPS, SXSW, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEB, LIVECAST, FIRST, Tor, Privacy Software, Internet, Privacy Issues

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Length: 2min 34sec (154 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 19 2014