Be a Banker not a Wanker (Crypto Security)!
Phishing sites, keyloggers and other little nasty bastard viruses are the main causes of people getting scammed and losing their crypto, our secure banking environment will remove the worry of keyloggers and viruses and make our machine open up a clean linux test environment each time we use it. Even if your machine is riddled with pooter aids it will not be able to run on your live environment meaning you have a clean secure system every time you use it.
Crypto security should be the first stop for every crypto crack face when they first dip their soon to become a degenerate toes into the cryptosphere.
If this is your first stop, then be warned, people are actively trying to rip you off everyday. This is the Wild West!
I'm not going to bore you with telling you YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME FORM OF HARD WALLET (Ledger or Trezor recommended) to keep your keys safely locked up, because you all know that already.
I'm not going to teach you some back door hack way how you can turn a USB into your own Hard Wallet for 3 bucks.
I'm also not going to tell you you should NEVER click links from captain underpants man sitting in Central Scambongo!
So what am I going to teach you?
How to open your wallets and transfer your major funds around in a SECURE BANKING ENVIRONMENT free from any little nasties that have happened to crawl onto your machine while watching Japanese Tentacle Porn.
How long will this take my lazy ass to complete this extra security measure where I could one day end up keeping my life savings?
Initial setup (15 minutes)
Everyday banking setup (1 minute)
Still with me? Great, lets get into it...
First steps...
You will need 3 things -
A flash drive that is empty, that you will keep purely for your crypto banking
The latest install of Ubuntu (don't worry you are not reinstalling your machine) - https://www.ubuntu.com/
The latest install of Rufus which is a tool to easily format flashdrives so they become bootable disks - https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Now we have these 2 things downloaded put them both in a folder to keep things organized. We will only need them once and then they can be deleted.
- Make sure you only have 1 flash drive in your machine and open the Rufus exe.
- The Device at the top should be pointing at your new flash drive. Now change the 'create a bootable disk using' to ISO image
- Click the CD and locate our Ubuntu install from our folder we created earlier
- Click Start
Rufus will now begin turning our flash drive into a bootable drive and end up looking something like this
If you open it, it should be full of all this good stuff that you don't need to worry about...
Time to enter our Secure Banking Environment.
Leave the flash drive plugged into the machine and reboot
This should bring up a boot disk menu that looks similar to this, now select your bootable USB device we just created (if things work real well, it will bypass this step and take you straight to the Ubuntu screen)
If it doesn't then try again. If that fails then press F12 or whatever key takes you to your boot menu (Google can help you)
- This will take us to a screen similar to this
- Select 'Try Ubuntu'
This will take us to a Ubuntu testing ground that is completely free of nasties with Firefox installed ready to access wherever we are hiding our wealth.
- When you shut down and start up again, simply remove your USB and your everyday operating system will be back.
You can now use this any time you need to access your main funds. I recommend only using it where you feel safe anyway as an extra precaution but it is 'according to the internet' also what some banks advise their customers to do to help with security when they aren't sure if the machine is clean or not.
PLEASE KEEP SAFE OUT THERE, SECURITY IS NO JOKE. USE THIS ALONGSIDE ALL OTHER PRECAUTIONS YOU CAN
As always DYOR!
If you feel mentally safer at all after reading this and want to toss me a portion of your wealth I stopped you losing in the future then my addresses are below.
Bitcoin - 3J8euDuM2nipTKaRbCkc14YtS8cjqtvUeB
Ethereum - 0x8a73772bead862bda5c8db8a3643f18d5ee4b18e