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With the key background knowledge from the previous chapter, we’re ready to really dig in and start taking some truly important steps to being more secure. If you were to do nothing else but follow the tips at the end of this chapter, you would be miles ahead of most people.
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Note that we’re talking upload speeds here, not download speeds. Most times you care about download speeds, which is the speed most ISP’s tout. But often the upload speed is much slower than the download speed.
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Thanks to the CLOUD Act, passed in early 2018, they may not even need a warrant.
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Windows PCs are notorious from coming with a lot of “crapware” preinstalled from other companies, like free trials of antivirus software and other stuff you don’t need. Feel free to remove these if you’re not using them.
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Parker, C. (2020). The Three Ups: Back Up, Clean Up, and Update. In: Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6189-7_3
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