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As you know we mainly deal with alternatives (nomen omen). Our ultimate goal, however, is to increase everyone's awareness of online privacy and technology as much as possible. It's not for nothing that we invented the tag practical examples. For this reason we have even suggested it to you in the past alternatives to LeAlternative.net. Every now and then we like to talk to you about projects that we appreciate and which, in our opinion, travel on the same wavelength as us. The project Average citizen seems to be one of them.
•It is a very nice project, well studied and born very recently. We quote from their website: “Our (ambitious) goal is to stimulate debate and raise awareness of issues that we believe to be fundamental for the protection of our civil, political and democratic liberties.“.
In fact, they dispense a slew of nuggets of wisdom regarding privacy, cybersecurity and online anonymity. The pills start from a common assumption: "what does an average citizen normally do regarding a certain technological topic?".
Average Citizen online
For each pill there is then an explanation of why that particular behavior is wrong or dangerous and how it can be improved.
Let's take an example right away to help you understand better:
The average citizen doesn't know that they can use a free and open platform alternative to Microsoft Office.
There are alternatives floss –Free Free Open source Software– for almost all needs. For example, you can freely use the suite LibreOffice which offers similar functionality but it has no costs or constraints due to proprietary user licenses.
Among the advantages of this solution, in addition to having no license costs, there is the possibility of reading and saving documents in a large variety of formats, including proprietary ones.
The importance of online security
Then there are also tips on online safety such as pill on your wireless password (we'll talk about this later too):
The average citizen has not set a secure password for their home WiFi.
An attack technique known as wardriving consists ofgo around looking for open wifi networks or, in any case, with weak protections (e.g. WEP). Once discovered, networks are attacked or used to carry out attacks on other nodes on the Internet, without the owner's knowledge.
The responsibility for any undue use, however, unless the contrary can be demonstrated (and it is certainly not easy, especially for home connections), lies with the holder of the line.
We therefore recommend configure adequate protection (at least WPA2) and an adequately secure home WiFi connection password.
Not convinced? Take a look at WiGLE…
And so on for a series of interesting and curious pills.
We like the site because it is simple, without tracers and without hidden tracking pixels 1. Does not use Cookies and it is really quick to consult, it seems like a job well done and above all well thought out.
•Another site similar to this one that we talked about recently that is similar to this one is: Quit Social Media.
We note with pleasure that There's starting to be a buzz online about this topic. Many interesting projects are finally emerging in Italy too, all with a common goal: to help people have greater awareness on the internet.
We are always very happy to share these new discoveries with you, especially if they are Italian and free from tracers and advertising.
What do you think? We are waiting for you on our subreddit, on the our group Telegram or in the our room Matrix to discuss it!
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