# (higher threats) where doo you get your advice from

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/higher-threats-where-doo-you-get-your-advice-from/42048
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** please-eli5
**Created:** 2026-11-05T15:45:52Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @gffhdf767767 — 2026-11-05T15:45:53Z

curious

alot of advice is for lower threats like “dont send face use vpn” but where do u get ur advice for more crazy stuff like boggymen are gonna slime u out if u connect anything to wifi

is it just natural selection :exclamation_question_mark::wilted_flower:

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## Post 2 by @maqp — 2026-11-05T17:16:08Z

- News
- Stuff like the Snowden documents
- Research papers
- Security conference talks (CCC, DEFCON, BlackHat)
- Books on hardening, cryptography, threat modeling, privacy, surveillance (capitalism)
- Reading other people’s code
- Writing secure software and trying to think adversarially
- CVE reports
- ~~Twitter~~ [Infosec Exchange](https://infosec.exchange/explore)
- University groups and networks

In no particular order

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## Post 3 by @gffhdf767767 — 2026-11-05T17:44:19Z

thx

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## Post 4 by @Valynor — 2026-11-06T14:54:54Z