How to use the internet

The most developed part of the Internet is the Web. You will find all the information you need on the Web. The Web makes possible, better than any other network on the Internet, to ensure the identity of the publisher of a Web site. On the Web, no one can hide for very long. To navigate correctly on the Web, you must at least:

Know the difference between an IP address and a domain name

Know how to read a domain name

Know how to read an URL (at least the left side)

Know that you must not confuse or forget a single character of an URL for it to work, except sometimes the last part of an URL

Know how to use a browser, never use the browser integrated into an application to connect to your email account or any other page that leads you to enter personal information (opacity), because you never know

Know how to check that your browser recognizes the electronic signature certificate of the site you browse (in general a lock is displayed to the left of the address bar)

Know how to check the quality of the electronic signature certificate of the website your browse, for example, you can use indicateTLS with Mozilla Firefox

Know how to upload a DD-WRT Firewall configuration in a GL.iNet router (Mango V2)

Know how to deactivate Javascript on your browser (for paranoids)

Know how to use a search engine, this is a search engine that allows you to look at a page from the search engine's server, used as a proxy, by clicking on the mask at the left of each result (anonymous mode): https://startpage.com/

Know how to click on a link and stop being afraid of clicking ; with very few exceptions, you can't get a virus on your device from a website, the webpage would have to automatically offer an executable download and you would run that download, that's why I don't recommend browsers that download without the browser displaying a dialog to authorize or not the download like Google Chrome, if in addition to that you do not display the extensions of your files, you risk executing a corrupt application believing that you are opening a file, indeed, we need a balance between user-friendliness, security and user learning potential (opacity)

Know that the .org Top Level Domain is administered unequally, consequently its Quality Of Service is low. The Wikipedia article about the .com TLD falsely claims that the .com TLD was administered by the US Department of Defense instead of the Department of Commerce. Airvpn.org leaks enough encrypted Wireguard data for Paypal to block your connection instantly when you contest a payment.

Know how to use wikipedia.org (understand that each language of a same article has different contributors, switch between languages to find alternatives sources of information) # Beware, there are Wikipedia articles for which there are more politics than sciences.

Know how to use translate.google.com

Know how to use cachedview.com or equivalent

Know how to search on archive.org (if you want to make a capture on archive.org, first check if the same capture does not already exist, to make a capture click on the first button on the left and paste your URL under section save page now)

Know how to search the WHOIS to check the authenticity or ownership of a domain name: https://who.is or others you can find on yandex.com

Know that you shall encrypt your DNS queries, use DNSecure or a MDM DoH (DNS over https) profile from simpledns.plus for macOS and iOS to set DoH at system level, on recent Windows versions you can set your DoH server from Edge settings and also from network options, remember that Windows will make you loose you time instead of learning something useful, try ipleak.net and dnsleaktest.com to check if you leak DNS queries and if your DNS servers are known or unknown

Know how that a VPN shall only be used on a router with WireGuard as protocol

Know that if your DNS and internet traffic in general are not encrypted and you did not follow carefully the instructions on this page and its links, you have very few chances to access a real internet and you will remain a political target that do not even need to be spied on with its compromising emanations that allow high resolution magnetic imaging with the help of GSM base stations hacked radios.

Know that it is better to use the last software than the last hardware which might still contain security flaws and which computing capacity is not yet harnessed.

Know that a software shall only be downloaded from the website of its editor or developer.

Know that you shall never use your administrator (root), for something else than administration, ALWAYS USE A SIMPLE USER so that you just have to delete this user if there is a malware, if your application needs administrator rights to be started, use it only in a VM (Virtual Machine), in a hypervisor which does not need administrator rights like UTM on Mac, which is only 250MB to download from mac.getutm.app or QEMU/Gnome Boxes.

Know that an operating system with unverified libraries that uses more than 8 gigabytes certainly sends your file list and your keyboard activity with steganography techniques.

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