This may look like a weird question btw.

I see constantly people here worried about digital security, I see people using Tor, deleting social networks, and just sharing the different levels of security that they use.

So I was wondering, how safe is Lemmy? Sure it doesnt collect info like Twitter and Meta does, but that doesnt mean its 100% safe. So what are the main problems we can have here? Is there anything the 3 letter agencies could exploit? Is there any preventive measures users could take?

  • @pinkeston
    15•2 years ago

    Crash course would just be to use https://tails.boum.org/ ,always lock your computer when you step away, and shut it down completely when not in use, preferably with batteries taken out

    There’s a bit more you can do but it’s kinda overkill for normal people

    • @nervvves
      15•9 months ago

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      • Arsen6331 ☭
        11•2 years ago

        You can certainly go even further. If it doesn’t exist already, it wouldn’t be hard to make a program that shows up every few minutes regardless of activity, and forces you to enter a password. If the password is not provided within a set timeframe, the machine is halted immediately.

        if you do this and also disable suspend/hibernate, which isn’t hard to do, then even if they get your computer while TAILS is running, they will only have access until the timeframe you set up passes.

        It would even be quite easy to have a false password that immediately halts the machine if entered, in case they decide to force you to tell them.