3 tips for keeping everything you do online a secret

For the past several months, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden has confounded the United States government’s attempts to track him online and stop him from releasing further damaging damaging information about its intelligence gathering activities. How has he been able to do this ? The Wall Street Journal reports that Snowden this week gave three simple tips to help make sure that no one can track your online activity: Encrypt your entire hard drive, use Tor to keep yourself completely anonymous online, and enable browser extensions that block third parties’ ability to track you. You can already encrypt your hard drive if your computer runs on the Ultimate version Windows 7, the Pro version of Windows 8.1 or the Enterprise

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