20240506

- Added a new quickstart guide: Identity Theft Defeense
- Made the Mobile Quickstart Guide an actual guide (a collection of relevant pages, really)
- Improved wording about planting your flag on the Habits page.
- Added affiliate link for Orange Website Hosting.

src/assets/data/pages/en/index/Guides.json

@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 [
+  {
+    "title": "Identity Theft",
+    "description": "These pages will teach you how to protect against the most common techniques used to impersonate you and steal your identity.",
+    "link": "/guides/quick-start/identity"
+  },
   {
     "title": "Mobile Devices",
-    "description": "Got a new stock Android or iPhone and looking to get as much privacy and security out of it as possible? Start here.",
-    "link": "/guides/most-important/mobile"
+    "description": "Got a new phone and looking to get as much privacy and security out of it as possible? Start here.",
+    "link": "/guides/quick-start/mobile"
   },
   {
     "title": "Desktop & Laptop Computers",
-    "description": "Unable to switch to Linux yet, but still want to protect your Mac or PC as much as possible? This guide is for you!",
+    "description": "Want to protect your Mac or PC as much as possible? This guide is for you!",
     "link": "/guides/moderately-important/desktop-settings"
   },
   {

src/assets/data/pages/en/quickstart/Identity.json

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+[
+  {
+    "title": "Freeze your credit",
+    "description": "A credit freeze prevents anyone except you from opening new accounts in your name. This page will tell you how to place credit freezes, fraud alerts, and more advice to stop new accounts from being opened in your name.",
+    "link": "/guides/most-important/credit"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Use payment masking services",
+    "description": "Online shopping and digital payments are common and convenient, but they also make it easy for criminals to swipe your credit card numbers. This page will teach you how to protect your digital finances from theft.",
+    "link": "/guides/most-important/payments"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Secure your online accounts",
+    "description": "The overwhelming majority of compromises are due to bad password and authentication habits and not keeping your apps and devices up-to-date. These pages will teach you what makes a good password, how to generate and remember them, and the different types of 2FA.",
+    "link": "/guides/most-important/passwords"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Remove your data from public search websites",
+    "description": "Much of your life is freely available online: past addresses, family members, even jobs and political affiliations. This information can be used to answer security questions or to trick you into falling for a scam. This page will teach you how to remove much of this information.",
+    "link": "/guides/moderately-important/public-protections"
+  },
+   {
+    "title": "Plant your flag",
+    "description": "This section discusses how to reduce the data you leak via social media and to ensure that bad guys can't impersonate you on important websites like unemployment, your doctor's web portal, and more.",
+    "link": "/guides/less-important/habits#account-hygiene"
+  }
+]

src/assets/data/pages/en/quickstart/Mobile.json

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+[
+  {
+    "title": "Introduction",
+    "description": "This page will cover the importance of hardening your mobile devices, as well as addressing the age-old 'Android vs iOS' debate from the perspective of privacy and security.",
+    "link": "/most-important/mobile"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Settings",
+    "description": "This page offers a list of settings we recommend changing to help reduce the amount of data collected by the device itself, to improve security, and more.",
+    "link": "/guides/most-important/mobile-settings/"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Replacement Apps",
+    "description": "This page suggest privacy-respecting and/or security-focused apps you can use instead of the stock apps that commonly ship with your device. This is includes apps like calendar, email, navigation, notes, photos, and more.",
+    "link": "/guides/most-important/mobile-apps/"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": "Mobile Habits",
+    "description": "This page covers behavioral changes you can make to make your phone as private as possible including reducing the number of apps you install, using third-party app stores, custom ROMs, and more.",
+    "link": "/guides/moderately-important/mobile-habits/"
+  }
+]

src/assets/data/pages/en/support/Affiliate.json

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
     "img": "/images/logos/nitrokey.png",
     "subtext": "Open source privacy & security hardware"
   },
+  {
+    "name": "OrangeWebsite",
+    "link": "https://affiliate.orangewebsite.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=14853",
+    "img": "/images/logos/orange.png",
+    "subtext": "Privacy-friendly hosting provider"
+  },
   {
     "name": "Privacy.com",
     "link": "https://privacy.com/join/UZ9WY",

src/pages/en/guides/less-important/habits.mdx

@@ -61,4 +61,4 @@ _Listed in alphabetical order, not order of recommendation_
 
 ## Account Hygiene
 
-Delete any and all unused accounts. This includes old social media accounts, library accounts, work accounts, services you signed up for once and never used again, etc. If you can't delete them for whatever reason, change it to a [secure password](/guides/most-important/passwords) and hold onto it somewhere safe. The exceptions to this is that I recommend holding onto old email accounts, and I recommend "[planting your flag](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you-plant-your-flag/)" on important accounts that are prone to fraud, such as unemployment. For the email accounts, you never know what you once used them for and when you might need them again for that purpose.
+Delete any and all unused accounts. This includes old social media accounts, library accounts, work accounts, services you signed up for once and never used again, etc. If you can't delete them for whatever reason, change it to a [secure password](/guides/most-important/passwords) and hold onto it somewhere safe. There are two exceptions: first, hold on to old email accounts because you may have forgotten something important that will require access to it one day. Second, "[plant your flag](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you-plant-your-flag/)" on important accounts that are prone to fraud, such as unemployment, your doctor's online portal, and any other account where you worry you might be impersonated in a way that could result in serious harm to your health, finances, or reputation.

src/pages/en/guides/moderately-important/email.mdx

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 ## Tips & Tricks
 
-**I strongly encourage the use of custom email domains.** This is the strongest way to ensure control over your email address, regardless of what happens to your provider or your account with them. A custom domain is incredibly cheap - usually anywhere from $10-25 USD per year depending on what you select - and your email provider should offer instructions and assistance in how to set it up to be used with your email address. If anything ever happens to your account or provider, you can simply point the domain to a new provider of your choice and continue to receive emails like normal. Some domain registrars we recommend include [1984hosting](https://www.1984hosting.com/), [NameCheap](https://www.namecheap.com/), and [OrangeWebsite](https://www.orangewebsite.com/). Please note that some email providers may require a paid account to use a custom domain as a premium feature and may put a limit on how many email addresses you can have. One loophole around this to get a premium account with one of our recommended [email aliasing services](/guides/moderately-important/email-aliasing), which usually offer unlimited addresses and custom domains with a premium account, and it's often significantly cheaper than a premium account with an email provider.
+**I strongly encourage the use of custom email domains.** This is the strongest way to ensure control over your email address, regardless of what happens to your provider or your account with them. A custom domain is incredibly cheap - usually anywhere from $10-25 USD per year depending on what you select - and your email provider should offer instructions and assistance in how to set it up to be used with your email address. If anything ever happens to your account or provider, you can simply point the domain to a new provider of your choice and continue to receive emails like normal. Some domain registrars we recommend include [1984hosting](https://www.1984hosting.com/), [NameCheap](https://www.namecheap.com/), and [OrangeWebsite](https://affiliate.orangewebsite.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=14853) ([non-affiliate link](https://www.orangewebsite.com/)). Please note that some email providers may require a paid account to use a custom domain as a premium feature and may put a limit on how many email addresses you can have. One loophole around this to get a premium account with one of our recommended [email aliasing services](/guides/moderately-important/email-aliasing), which usually offer unlimited addresses and custom domains with a premium account, and it's often significantly cheaper than a premium account with an email provider.
 
 **Never assume an email is secure.** Email was never designed to be a secure communication method, and even with PGP or other encryption protocols you can never guarantee that an email won't be screenshotted, printed, or otherwise shared with unauthorized people. Never put anything in writing you wouldn't be willing to have publicly displayed.
 

src/pages/en/guides/quick-start/identity.mdx

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+---
+layout: "@layouts/guides.astro"
+title: Identity Theft Protection Quick Start Guide
+draft: false
+---
+
+import guides from "@assets/data/pages/en/quickstart/Identity.json";
+import Cards from "@components/pages/front-page/Cards.astro";
+
+# Identity Theft Protection
+
+Identity theft is one of the most common causes of anxiety in our digital age. In [2023](https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/doj-identity-theft-victims-report-2023-10) alone, almost 24 million Americans had their identities stolen, totaling $16.4 billion in damages. Nearly a quarter of US residents have experienced identity theft at some point in their lives. I can only assume from anecdotal evidence that this doesn't include simpler forms of the crime that most people don't think of as "identity theft," like having a credit card number stolen.
+
+Thankfully, **protecting yourself from most common avenues of identity theft is surprisingly easy.** The following pages on this website directly address common identity-theft-related issues and implementing the advice on these pages will dramatically reduce your risk.
+
+<Cards items={guides} color="secondary" />
+
+**Note**: the advice on these pages will not stop a dedicated and well-resourced attacker, but it will make you a difficult enough target that most attackers will simply move on to an easier payday. If you have a significantly large amount of wealth and assets, you may need additional protections. I recommend talking to your lawyer and doing additional research in this case.

src/pages/en/guides/quick-start/mobile.mdx

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+---
+layout: "@layouts/guides.astro"
+title: Mobile Device Quick Start Guide
+draft: false
+---
+
+import guides from "@assets/data/pages/en/quickstart/Mobile.json";
+import Cards from "@components/pages/front-page/Cards.astro";
+
+# Mobile Devices Quick Start Guide
+
+Mobile devices are some of the most ubiquitous and important devices in our lives. According to most sources, people are using phones more than desktop computers to participate in the online world (if only by a tiny margin). This is especially pronounced in developing nations where cheap phones may be more easily accessible (and portable) with a longer battery life than even a cheap notebook PC. But this convenience is a double-edged sword: these always-on assistants are hard to modify, resulting in a near-constant stream of data collection and a new attack surface to defend. Because of extensive and complex nature of mobile devices, our quick start guide for mobile devices is actually a collection of pages.
+
+<Cards items={guides} color="secondary" />