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blog/posts/differential-privacy.md
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#### Strava Heatmap Incident
In 2018, the fitness app Strava announced a major update to its heatmap, showing the the workout patterns of users of fitness trackers like Fitbit.
In 2018, the fitness app Strava announced a major update to its heatmap, showing the workout patterns of users of fitness trackers like Fitbit.
Analyst [Nathan Ruser](https://x.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920) indicated that these patterns can reveal military bases and troop movement patterns. This is obviously a huge op-sec problem and can endanger the lives of troops.
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- Email
license: BY-SA
schema_type: BackgroundNewsArticle
description: Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address. But is it really a good idea to still be relying on the same decades old techology? What can we do about replacing it?
description: Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address. But is it really a good idea to still be relying on the same decades old technology? What can we do about replacing it?
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blog/posts/mastodon-tutorial-privacy-and-security.md
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![Screenshot of the Mastodon web interface showing the "Preferences" page in Preferences.](../assets/images/mastodon-tutorial-privacy-and-security/mastodon-posts-default.webp)
<div class="admonition tip" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Hide posted media (slighly)</p>
<p class="admonition-title">Hide posted media (slightly)</p>
Additionally, you might want to check the "Always mark media as sensitive" option from the same section. This will label the media as "Sensitive content", and require others to click on it to view the image. This will **not stop anyone from clicking to view it**, including people without a Mastodon account from your account's public page, but it might *slightly* reduce the visibility for certain media.
blog/posts/stay-safe-but-stay-connected.md
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Using a pseudonym and a profile picture that isn't a self-portrait can help significantly to reduce digital footprints and improve online safety. It can also help to detach different accounts from each other, for example by using a certain name for a work account and a pseudonym for a personal alt account.
Remember that that this will not make you anonymous online, however. It will only help hide or separate your legal identity from your public-facing profile.
Remember that this will not make you anonymous online, however. It will only help hide or separate your legal identity from your public-facing profile.
If you want to use more serious pseudonymity online, you will also need to consider using different email addresses to sign up, different phone numbers if required, different photos of course, but also different IP addresses, and so on and so forth.