Protect Your Digital Privacy:
Obfuscate, Don’t Hide
In today’s digital world, hiding completely online is nearly impossible. But you can protect yourself by deliberately obfuscating your personal information — making it harder for others to track, profile, or target you.
Why Obfuscate?
- You can’t erase your digital footprints, but you can mix, confuse, and mislead trackers.
- Scammers, advertisers, and even governments rely on predictable data.
- Obfuscation breaks their assumptions — protecting your privacy without disappearing entirely.
Practical Tips to Obfuscate Your Digital Life
1. Use a *** (e.g., Open***, WG*)
- Encrypt your internet traffic and mask your real IP address.
- Prevent websites and apps from tracking your physical location.
2. Switch Your Device’s System Language Regularly
- Apps use your language to predict behavior and interests.
- Changing it adds noise to behavioral profiling.
3. Change Passwords Periodically
- Reduce the risk if passwords leak in breaches.
- Use strong, unique passwords (consider a password manager).
4. Use Anonymous or Secondary SIM Cards for Important Accounts
- Tie Baidu, social media, or messaging accounts to a SIM card not linked to your main identity.
- Use prepaid or virtual SIMs (non-ID-tied UK SIMs are popular for this).
5. Rename Contacts to Aliases
- Avoid obvious relationship titles like “Mom,” “Boss,” or “Doctor.”
- Use code names or pseudonyms to confuse social engineering attacks.
6. Limit App Permissions
- Deny unnecessary access to your contacts, location, and microphone.
- Think twice before syncing your contacts with social apps.
7. Use Privacy-Focused Tools
- Consider privacy-friendly browsers (Brave, duckduckgo).
- Use encrypted messaging apps (Signal, Wire, Tg).
Bonus: Create False Digital Footprints
- Visit websites unrelated to your real interests.
- Mix browsing languages and topics.
- This “digital camouflage” adds noise and misleads trackers.
Remember:
Privacy isn’t about going invisible. It’s about being strategically visible — showing only what you want, while confusing anyone trying to profile you.
Protect yourself and your network. Share these tips with family and friends!
Social engineering only works if people accept the values and scripts it’s built on. Confucianism, in this case, is the operating system that allows the manipulation to run smoothly. If you uninstall the OS — or reject it mentally — the manipulation fails.
