Hello, good people at Privacy Guides (PG)! My post is in regard to Windows ‘hardening’. More specifically, I am currently using Windows 10 Pro, thus, I have been following this Windows guide: https://deploy-preview-1659--privacyguides.netlify.app/windows/overview/ . I have numerous questions about th…

Final solution Disclaimer: I have no knowledge in this field, therefore, I have certainly missed steps, or done steps incorrectly, so please feel free to correct me. Furthermore, make sure you understand the purposes of the recommended settings before applying them (you can always revert individual …

If you really wanna know how to configure Windows to be secure and private, I suggest you take some time and read this and this . Then the most of your questions can be answered by yourself.

Thanks for citing these comprehensive resources. However, it appears they are tediously long, for me personally, someone who does not have the time to understand how all these features work or what they do, but wants to take advantage of them.

You can install security baselines from MS. They are covering most of the recommendations. Download Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0 from Official Microsoft... This set of tools allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit and store Microsoft-reco…

Nice find, I think it could be useful for the upcoming Windows guide.

[image] anon34108895: Firstly, the recommend approach is to use Yubikey as 2FA This is just an FYI for those interested in setting up Yubico for Windows. I had a ton of trouble getting yubico for windows initially setup and working. If you are like me and for some reason it installs and does…

thank u but I’m currently fine with yubikey login

I really do not know whether I would get a hardware authentication device. I have no knowledge in this field whatsoever, aside from reading EFF’s SSD guide.

Thanks so much, I will give them a read.

I have asked about automating privacy hardening in another post, this is life saving! This should be the default for lay people like me!

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anon34108895 December 29, 2023, 1:43am 13

imo if you’re short of time, at least you should read complete privacy settings for Windows , security baseline for Microsoft products , privacy settings for Edge , privacy settings for Office

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