Wondering why someone decides to do privacy education and research full-time? This episode, we're sitting down with Sun Knudsen to chat about his education and research on privacy, funding in the privacy and FOSS spaces, and a little bit of macOS vs Linux.

More about Sun Knudsen:

• Sun Knudsen's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/sun-knudsen/

Sun Knudsen's recommended tools to Opt Out:

• Tails, a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship -- https://tails.boum.org/
• Signal, an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted messenger -- https://signal.org/
• Yubikey, a hardware approach to multi-factor auth and key management -- https://www.yubico.com/products/
• KeePassXC, a FOSS password manager -- https://keepassxc.org/
• Veracrypt, an open-source tool for creating and managing encrypted volumes -- https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
• Trezor, an open-source hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies -- https://trezor.io/
• Cold Card, an extremely secure Bitcoin hardware wallet -- https://coldcard.com/

This week's project to help you Opt Out - i2p:

• Website -- https://geti2p.net/en/
• Getting started with i2p -- https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro
• Official i2p client downloads -- https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro
• i2p-zero, a lightweight i2p client -- https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero

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• IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn

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