Safe Web Browsing Practices

This is an old version. The new version is now a chapter in this guide: https://datawalker.gitbook.io/linux-for-patriarchs/

How do you be safe on the web? Part of the problem is the tangled mess of code on your system. There is more code than any one person can understand on your system. You need to cover every hole in your defenses, but an attacker only has to find one.

Web browsers in particular are complicated, bloated, garbage bins of code that we can't get rid of. But there are ways to reduce attack surface. I will explain some common and uncommon attacks to be aware of and how to mitigate them.

This information was developed in collaboration with @DigitalGoon