Opsec In Crypto
This is my first article series about opsec in crypto currency,This is a super important topic I wanted to go over somethings that can improve your opsec.
Tips to keep your opsec tip top
Keeping your Seed Phrase safe
The best way to store your seed is to engrave it into something of your choice,Stainless steel marble anything of that nature works quite well.You could even split the words up if you liked into sets and keep them in different safe places in case you had an intruder in your house they would never be able to recover the hole seed from you.
Store your seed offline when you don’t need it
Don’t keep your Metamask wallet with your hard earned money laying on your computer or phone if you don’t need to it’s much safer to remove it for when you don’t need it in case of a hack.And type them back in when you do.
Pros to using a virtual machine or a live OS
Virtual machines are wonderful for keeping you safe,I recommend that people use them as everything is isolated inside of the virtualized system and doesn’t interfere with your computer.When you switch them off everything gets erased inside of the machine.
Virtual Box is recommended : https://www.virtualbox.org/
Fedora Linux distro : https://getfedora.org/
Any Linux disro you may like will do the job :)
What is a live operating system?
A live operating system is an operating system like mac OS windows or Linux which is able to run on boot from your computer,They are run on usb and discs mainly.
Pros to using a live OS?
You can run them with out installing any software on your computer,You just plug it into a usb port or disc drive.
And when you are done using the system all you need to do is shutdown,And because everything is on a live operating system everything you did is gone when you press the power off button.
Using a vpn
If you want your ip address hidden what better way than using a vpn for a start. Especially when using crypto you don’t want the services you used when you interacted with a wallet like Metamask knowing your physical location.
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