Bring It All Together
You now have the tools necessary to secure all of your online accounts.
Warning
Verify all previous tutorials are complete, before moving forward.
Tools
Apply the tools to all of your accounts.
Communication
Reminder: Communicate
Share your progress with others, without sharing sensitive information.
Password Manager
Reminder: Create an entry in Bitwarden
It is worth your time to find an organizational method in the Notes section, of each account entry, to be effective.
Virtual Phone Numbers
Reminder: Primary and Alternate numbers.
Change the linked phone number in each account, to a Virtual Phone Number.
Try in this order:
Google Voice
TextNow
ClickSend
Warning
Do not
Use a phone number as a recovery method (unless the account requires it - banks are notorious for requiring it).
Instead and wherever possible, only use it to
Satisfy account creation requirments (gmail, for example, generally requires a phone number to create an account, but it should not be used as a recovery method).
See
2FA Usage for more info.
2 Factor Authentication
Reminder: Set up 2FA
Use 2FA Documentation to navigate through the online, account providers. Remember, use Authy for documentation and use the Ente Auth app to store the 2FA codes.
While logged into this online account, complete all 2 Factor Authentication steps.
Secure All Accounts
Using these tools, secure all of your accounts in this order:
Upon logging into any account or website
Account Category
Email/Communication
Banking/Financial
You may have a note, storing all of your passwords
Move through them, one by one, until the note is no longer needed.
Permanently delete or destroy the note.
Account Category Continued
Social
Shopping
Etc.
Note
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