Security while streaming games

[TheStigsChineseCousin]

I will hopefully be building my new system in the next couple of months, and plan to start putting gaming content on Youtube, and then a little later possibly Twitch. We've all seen streamers get DDoSed and even had SWAT raids carried out in the extreme examples, so my question is what is the best way to protect against this sort of thing? Obviously ensuring I never reveal my address or sensitive personal info is important, and keeping certain social media private. Other than that all I can think of is running a VPN, ensuring I have different passwords on every account, and hoping for the best.  I will also generate a brand new email and Youtube channel so it's not connected to my current profiles.  I may or may not use a webcam to show my face while playing games, I haven't decided on that yet.

 

If you're a streamer or Youtuber, what security measures have you taken, or what do you recommend?

[MograineLefay]

Don't show any IP / account details on the stream. If you use Discord, enable streamer mode.

[tlink]

don't record a window or outside of your location, dump your alias that you used until now because it might be linked somewhere to your real name or ip. doesn't have to be completely different but a slight variation stops people from finding all your old accounts via google.

[Danielh90]

17 minutes ago, TheStigsChineseCousin said:

I will hopefully be building my new system in the next couple of months, and plan to start putting gaming content on Youtube, and then a little later possibly Twitch. We've all seen streamers get DDoSed and even had SWAT raids carried out in the extreme examples, so my question is what is the best way to protect against this sort of thing? Obviously ensuring I never reveal my address or sensitive personal info is important, and keeping certain social media private. Other than that all I can think of is running a VPN, ensuring I have different passwords on every account, and hoping for the best. I use auto-gen passwords with LastPass and 2 factor authentication where possible anyway so I'm not worried about that. I will also generate a brand new email and Youtube channel so it's not connected to my current profiles.  I may or may not use a webcam to show my face while playing games, I haven't decided on that yet.

 

If you're a streamer or Youtuber, what security measures have you taken, or what do you recommend?

Don't even tell us what type of password software you use. or cloud service meaning Google Drive,Dropbox for security reasons

[KSores]

just be careful, use game capture in obs or whatever software you use so it ONLY captures the game and not other stuff on your pc, and streamer mode on discord. never had issues with privacy myself but i suppose it can happen

[sazrocks]

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[TheStigsChineseCousin]

I appreciate the feedback so far guys, thanks.  I completely forgot Jerry did a video about this exact topic, thanks for the reminder!