Chapter 1

OS X, Privacy, and Online Safety

Technical Classes: Basic, Standard, Advanced, and Advanced+

Abstract

This chapter addresses issues in governance and privacy and the way private industry can collect and sell private user data by way of EULA. Background is given on the extent by which law enforcement has leveraged private/public corporate data stores in order to collect information on private citizens without warrants or due process.

Details are given in the intermediate section on how to create and configure multiple Firefox profiles in order to switch between profiles to suit the required browser experience.

The advanced section shows the user how to create an “always on” Tor proxy (Tor in an encrypted anonymizing network) by using ...

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