The Journey So far!
When I first started this journey to find a way to use my chrome book to blog and keep it safe, I just didn’t know how hard it was to switch from Windows or even the Linux system to this! It wasn’t as if I had any choice in the matter. It was in my price range, under 300$ and thus I decided I was going to overcome some of the obstacles of the OS. I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy it but I am saying you need to know what your getting into before you try some of these things.
What you need to do!
If it isn’t obvious yet it soon will be is to make sure you have HTTPS Everywhere installed and running. You don’t have much options when it comes to a VPN service but that will be changing soon because I have a great tutorial coming down the pipe from VPN4ALL. I’ve have been talking to them and urging them to come up with a way to use their service with Chromebook. I have found a temporary service for the time but I feel I should keep with my sponsors as long as possible. I will also be publishing the tutorial about the other VPN services that work with Chrome OS in a few days. As you can see I have been really busy and researching all this!
Password Management!
I have told you in the past, I just love Lastpass and you should be installing a password manager that suites you and here are a few that you can install:
- Lastpass (Recommend by me)
- 1password
- Chromelpass (Keepass)
- One Last Pass
Some of you probably are wondering why I think this is important. If a hacker got a hold of yoru account because your password was rather weak then you will have lost your chance to keep that account from being compromised. So when your creating passwords it should not be memorable, and should have letters, numbers, and symbols and that is where these guys come in. They all create unique passwords that will keep your account safe and they will also encrypt those passwords in a database.
These are just a few good apps to secure your Chrome OS and keep the bad guys from getting into your online identies and also snooping on your privacy. Each person should worry about stuff like this but I am sure they have no clue. At least this will help you start protecting your stuff and who you are online!
