# Stay Safe

| Name                                                                                                                                                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Free? |
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| [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 <https://browserleaks.com/>, 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   |


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