# Stay Safe | Name | Description | Free? | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | | [Protect Yourself From Onlline Tracking](https://www.privacyinternational.org/act/protect-yourself-online-tracking) | Privacy International's guide that recommends tools and extensions for Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows that protect you from online tracking. | yes | | [HTTPS Everywhere](https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) | A browser add-on to force any visited sites to serve data over HTTPS (to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks). | yes | | [Two Factor Auth (2FA)](http://twofactorauth.org/) | Check for every digital service you use whether you have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) | Yes | | [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/) | A privacy-focused web browser that protects your anonymity by encrypting and routing your traffic through multiple servers. Can connect to this "onion routing" network either automatically or on-demand, and includes built-in options to use "bridges" to access the internet in places where Tor might be blocked or censored. | Yes | | [Tails OS](https://tails.net/) | A secure operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB stick, protecting your privacy and helping you avoid censorship. All internet traffic goes through the Tor network, and the system leaves no trace on the computer once shut down. | Yes | | [Panopticlick](https://panopticlick.eff.org/) | A profiling tool which provides a measure of how easy your particular browser instance is to identify. (i.e. How much do you stand out from the crowd.) Can be used in conjunction with , which gives a very detailed breakdown of what your browser makes available to the outside world. | yes | | [Privacy Badger](https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) | A browser add-on to prevent browser tracking/cookies. | yes | | Search Engines Which Protect Privacy | DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Qwant | yes | | [Security in a Box](https://securityinabox.org/en/) | Security in a box guide advice on how to use social media and mobile phones more safely. The Tool Guides offer step-by-step instructions to help you install, configure and use some essential digital security software and services | yes | | [Security Planner (CitizenLab)](https://securityplanner.org/) | Answer a few simple questions to get personalized online safety recommendations. It's confidential - no personal information is stored and CitizenLab won't access any of your online accounts. | yes | | [Surveillance Self-Defense](http://ssd.eff.org/) | Tips and methodologies for safe(r) online communications. | yes | | [Tech Solidarity](http://techsolidarity.org/) | Basic Security Guide, do and don’ts for basic security when using a laptop and/or mobile device. Here’s a guide: techsolidarity.org/resources/basic\_security.htm. | yes | | [URLscan](http://urlscan.io/) | This is a sandbox that allows you to scan a URL to check it's safe before properly visiting it. | yes | | [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url) | Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, automatically share them with the security community | yes | | [Malicious URL Tester](http://safeweb.norton.com/) | Testing unknown URLs. | yes | | [Tella App](https://tella-app.org/) | App for encrypting data on your phone and for securely transfering files | yes | | [Blur - Chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blur-the-image-and-video/aikjogmpaoaookmacnkbenekcnkjlkmi?hl=en-US\&authuser=0) | Automatically blur images and videos on a page - for when you don´t want to see images | yes | | [Dangerzone](https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone) | Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs, a project by Micah Lee and the [Freedom of the Press Foundation](https://freedom.press/) | yes |