Your Weekly Privacy & Security Wins 🏆 (Week 46 - Mar 13 2025)

  • Started moving from 1Password to Bitwarden. Have tried Bitwarden in the past as it is open source. Bitwarden’s new UI finally got me to switch.
  • I used to keep, recovery keys/codes locally on my PC. Finally moved them into KeePass. KeePass works as I do not need to sync them often and the recovery codes separated from my main password manager.
  • WhatsApp is a very critical in my country as it is used for a lot of official communication here including things like metro tickets (you can still get offline tickets but online booking requires whatsapp). Hence I was looking at ways to make WhatsApp more private & secure.
    • Removed Photo permission for Whatsapp. Now anytime I want to share photos I am selecting them in Gallery and sharing them to WhatsApp.
    • Disabled Link previews within WhatsApp settings.
    • Turned off background app refresh for Whatsapp.
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