Episode notes
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.
Thanks to our hosts:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/hardblockbtc
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod
Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
References
https://learn.hardblock.com.au/how-to-upgrade-your-email-privacy/
** Please note that CTemplar closed down as of May 2022.
Notes
- OnTheRun to accept bitcoin payments in Australia
- Overton window shifting to include bitcoin, inflation, and the debt crisis
- Why upgrade your email privacy?
- Google is monitoring you, censoring content, and feeding/teaching their artificial intelligence systems with your data
- What to look for in a private email provider?
- End-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption, free and open source, and good reputation
- What's the easiest way to make the move to a private email account?
- Having a Password Manager can make transitioning to private email easier
- Keep your old email account open and gradually transfer data and subscriptions across to your newer private email service - this makes the process easier and reduces the chance of forgetting to transfer something across
- Step 1: Sign-up to a private email provider, eg, ProtonMail, Tutanota, or CTemplar
- ProtonMail is a good all-round choice (easy to sign-up privately, more features than others, long-term reputation, and continuing to build a privacy-focused ecosystem including calendar, cloud storage, VPN service, etc)
- Try to sign-up without linking the new email address to an email, phone number, or IP address already associated with you - this is probably unnecessary, but good for privacy practice!
- How to choose a username for your new private email address (full name, first name, pseudonym or otherwise)?
- Step 2: Sign-up to an email alias forwarding service, eg, AnonAddy or SimpleLogin
- How do email alias forwarding services work?
- What username to choose for email alias forwarding services?
- Step 3: Provide an email alias for every website you sign-up to in future
- How else can you use email alias forwarding service (eg, replying from the alias and disabling aliases)?
- Checking yourself out on www.haveibeenpwned.com to see if any of your emails or passwords have been compromised in known data breaches
- Good privacy can result in better security, eg, protecting against credential stuffing attacks based on data breaches
- Recent MailChimp and HubSpot data breaches
- Social engineering attacks are harder to employ against someone who uses a private email, email alias forwarding service, and a password manager
- Which password manager should you use? BitWarden - although there'll be a separate podcast and article released about that soon
- If you're missing Google Meets audio and video calling, then look into Jitsi, Signal, or Impervious.ai's upcoming browser
- Don't let perfect be the enemy of good! Start today and make gradual steps over time
