About The Gated Series
What?
GATED is an evolving series of step-by-step, how-to guides on Digital Privacy & Security, aimed at the average person who doesn't identify as being “tech-savvy”. It's not just trying to get you to maximise your Digital Privacy & Security by jumping to the extremes. Instead, it walks through the entire spectrum, for you to decide which is the ideal setup, based on your own lifestyle.
- Multiple Profiles
- Comparing Alternate Browsers (not Chrome or Edge)
- Implementing Multiple Browsers (not Chrome or Edge)
- Tor Browser
- Comparing Alternate Operating Systems (not Windows)
- Implementing Multiple Operating Systems (not Windows)
- Public or Shared WiFis
- Comparing & Implementing VPNs
- Full Security Tor-Powered Operating Systems
- Dispelling Myths & Misunderstandings Of Available Tools, Along The Way
Who?
It is reasonable to expect that anyone whose responsibility involves sensitive information, they'd have the knowledge or training to increase their Digital Privacy & Security. But not everyone has that luxury. More likely, it's the person living a perfectly normal life, who suddenly comes into information they need to share, that gets lost in the maze of technology. This video series is meant for them.
- Those Unable To Speak Up
- Those Drowning In The Crowd
- The Unintended WhistleBlower
- The Unintended Reporter
- Any Average Person With Something To Say
Why?
So why does the average person need to know how to implement Digital Privacy & Security, when they aren't a hacker, millionaire, or a politician? Because it's all getting upside down now. Those people, are no longer the ones that need to hide.
- The Shift In What's Morally & Socially Acceptable
- The Shift In What's Justice & Fair
- The Shift In The Acceptance That As Long As You're Right, You Will Be Safe
- The Consolidation Of The Press That Pushes A Single Narrative
- Corporate Overreach Where Conglomerates Upend Lives For Profit With Zero Accountability
- The Lack Of A Voice To Those Deemed Unworthy
- Does Protecting Yourself Really Need A Why?
How?
To make this video series really accessible to everyone, it strips away confusing technical terms and complicated process, and replaces them with real-world analogies and relatable examples. It doesn't just give you instructions, but actually guides you through the whole process of researching, comparing, deciding and then implementing them, with myself as the test subject.
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Episode 6: Anonymity
In this sixth episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we explore Anonymity, the third rule of Privacy & Security, shifting our focus from passive data collection to protecting against active profiling.
We examine how innocent daily activity can be used to build an identifiable profile, and learn why protecting your identity requires addressing the hidden data leaked by your software, habits, and environment.
- Profiling: Understand how active observers piece together normal, innocent online actions to construct a detailed personal profile.
- Behavioural Patterns: Explore how unchangeable human traits and the smallest daily patterns leave behind identifiable traces.
- Environmental Data Leaks: Discover how uncontrolled elements in your setup automatically transmit background data completely outside your control, regardless of your personal habits.
Episode 5: The VPN Illusion
In this fifth episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we confront The VPN Illusion and expose why the most popular privacy tool on the market often gives users a dangerous, false sense of security.
We examine how a VPN’s impact on data flow introduces new and often overlooked points of failure, requiring careful consideration of various setup options.
- The Illusion of Anonymity: Understand why simply switching on a VPN without changing your online habits fails to protect your privacy, leaving more personal data exposed because of a false sense of security.
- VPN Installation Placement: Discover how where you install your VPN (e.g. Browser VPN vs Operating System VPN) changes what information is isolated, and when the higher level could counter-intuitively offer weaker protection.
- Connection Type & Frequency: Explore how connection choices (e.g. auto-start, always-connected) affect your digital footprint, and why people often get it wrong.
- Understanding Technical VPN Structure: Learn not only how data moves across a VPN network, but also how it is handled within the service so you can choose the right setup (e.g. dedicated IP, shared IP, etc).
- Selecting a Trustworthy Provider: Identify essential criteria needed to evaluate VPN services (e.g. corporate HQ, server location, storage persistence) to avoid disreputable providers that harvest and sell your private traffic.
Episode 4: Sterility
In this fourth episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we look at Sterility and why a single simple mistake can instantly undermine your digital privacy setup.
We examine how harmless everyday habits silently link your private accounts behind the scenes, and what it actually takes to protect your personal information in an age where data is stored forever.
- Digital Sterility vs. Contamination: Understand why separating your online accounts isn't enough if your personal data is silently cross-linked in the background.
- Hidden Data Connections: Discover how routine details like shared payment methods or delivery addresses permanently connect your separate online identities.
- The Danger of Contaminated Data: Explore how a momentary lapse in judgment can expose sensitive personal activity to advertisers, data brokers, and giant platforms.
- Practical Profile Separation: Learn how to balance privacy and convenience without making your everyday browser setup unnecessarily complicated.
- Building Sustainable Privacy Habits: Identify simple behavioural changes to keep your private browsing truly isolated from your public digital footprint.
Episode 3: Compartmentalisation
In this third episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we look at Compartmentalisation - the first rule of digital Privacy & Security.
We explore where your boundaries of control actually begin and end in everyday tech use, and how to take back control of your personal data without making your setup overly complicated.
- Digital Compartmentalisation: Understand the fundamental practice of separating your online activities to regain control over your personal data.
- How Data Travels: Map how your information moves from your local keyboard, through layers of software and hardware, to global web servers.
- Where Data Leaks: Discover points along the network route where your personal information becomes vulnerable to being harvested by third-party data centres.
- Stop Cross-Site Tracking: Go beyond basic cookie blocking, by learning how to isolate accounts and leverage alternative browsers so giant platforms can't build a complete profile of your life.
- Convenience vs. Exposure: Identify the exact boundary lines of your tech control to decide where you need to draw the line for your lifestyle.
Episode 2: The How
In this second episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we discuss how Digital Privacy & Security is within reach of anyone, of any tech level.
Episode 1: The Why
In this first episode of GATED - The Guide to Privacy & Security for the Common Man, we look at the reasons why privacy & security should not just be for hackers, millionaires or anarchists.