Stay Safe
Online security and privacy
Privacy International's guide that recommends tools and extensions for Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows that protect you from online tracking.
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A browser add-on to force any visited sites to serve data over HTTPS (to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks).
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Check for every digital service you use whether you have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA)
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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.
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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.
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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 https://browserleaks.com/, which gives a very detailed breakdown of what your browser makes available to the outside world.
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Search Engines Which Protect Privacy
DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Qwant
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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
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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.
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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.
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This is a sandbox that allows you to scan a URL to check it's safe before properly visiting it.
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Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, automatically share them with the security community
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Automatically blur images and videos on a page - for when you don´t want to see images
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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
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