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- | This page briefly explains how to use various tools which enhance your privacy, anonymity and overall security. The guides are written in an easy to understand, step-by-step manner. The difficulty | + | This page briefly explains how to use various tools which enhance your privacy, anonymity and overall security. The guides are written in an easy to understand, step-by-step manner. The difficulty |
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* Make this a landing page with short explanation of each tech and add link to actual article(s). | * Make this a landing page with short explanation of each tech and add link to actual article(s). | ||
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+ | ====== Why is mass surveillance a problem? ====== | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | ====== Quotes ====== | ||
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+ | "// | ||
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+ | "//All the headlines saying [[https:// | ||
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====== Security warning ====== | ====== Security warning ====== | ||
- | Note, however, that security is a process, not a tool. You need at least basic understanding to assess the degree of security or [[: | + | Note, however, that security is a process, not a tool. You need at least basic understanding to assess the degree of security or [[: |
- | The use of security sensitive activity (which is both prohibited and can be persecuted | + | All security sensitive activity (which is both prohibited, and prosecutable |
====== Guides to Crypto Tools ====== | ====== Guides to Crypto Tools ====== | ||
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* [[: | * [[: | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
- | * [[http://www.tcij.org/resources/handbooks/infosec|Center for Investigative Journalism - Information Security for Journalists]] | + | * [[https://ssd.eff.org/en | Surveillance Self-Defense - Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications]] |
+ | * [[https://files.gendo.ch/ | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
- | * [[https:// | + | |
====== Alternatives to common online services and programs ====== | ====== Alternatives to common online services and programs ====== | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
- | ====== Why is mass surveillance a problem? ====== | ||
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- | * [[: | ||
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- | ====== Quotes ====== | ||
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- | "//All the headlines saying [[https:// | ||
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====== Web Browsing ====== | ====== Web Browsing ====== | ||
To get an idea of what web browsing actually is, read the chapter **[[http:// | To get an idea of what web browsing actually is, read the chapter **[[http:// | ||
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* When you visit a website you give away information about yourself to the site owner, unless precautions are taken. | * When you visit a website you give away information about yourself to the site owner, unless precautions are taken. | ||
- | * Your browsing on the Internet may be tracked by the sites you visit and partners of those sites. | ||
- | * Visiting a website on the Internet is never a direct connection. Many computers, owned by many different people are involved. Secure connections ensure that your browsing can not be read in between you and the server. | ||
* What you search for is of great interest to search providers (mostly for targeted advertising). | * What you search for is of great interest to search providers (mostly for targeted advertising). | ||
+ | * Your browsing on the Internet may be tracked by the sites you visit and partners of those sites. | ||
+ | * Visiting a website on the Internet is never a direct connection. Many computers, owned by many different people are involved. | ||
+ | * Encrypted connections (HTTPS a.k.a TLS) ensure that your browsing can not be read in between you and the server. | ||
+ | * TLS is important, but since the server belongs to an untrusted third party, your primary protection when browsing the web and publishing to web is **anonymity**. | ||
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- | Then you can see what you just learned | + | See what companies know about you by facing a virtual mirror to yourself on |
- | * [[http:// | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
- | ===== Browser ===== | ||
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- | [[https:// | ||
===== Tor Browser ===== | ===== Tor Browser ===== | ||
- | Most possibly the best option you can and will ever have if you like your privacy, freedom and anonimity in your hands, and not in the hands of trackers, companies -like your personal ISP-, governmental systems and programs, and other potential snoopers, where they don't belong. | + | Tor Browser is |
- | * [[https:// | + | * Anonymous |
- | * Install & [[https:// | + | * The best option out there |
- | * Use! (instead of your normal browser) | + | * Based on the [[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ |
- | * Before browsing | + | * Designed to protect you against surveillance done by companies |
- | | + | Setup |
+ | | ||
+ | - [[https:// | ||
+ | - [[https:// | ||
- | | + | Before browsing |
- | | + | |
+ | - Watch the [[https:// | ||
- | ===== Browser Plugins ===== | + | Adjust security settings |
+ | - Before accessing [[: | ||
+ | - set the [[https:// | ||
- | ==== HTTPS Everywhere ==== | + | **WARNING! Do not install any browser add-ons to Tor Browser. The anonymity Tor provides is based on the fact all users look identical. If you install an add-on that makes your browser fingerprint unique, it means you will stand out from the crowd, and you can be tracked.** |
- | * [[https:// | ||
- | ==== Block Advertising and Tracking | + | ==== Firefox Browser |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * For Firefox there also is [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | ==== Scripting ==== | + | For browsing that doesn' |
- | Advanced. Only enable JavaScript, and especially | + | **Ad block plugins** |
+ | *[[https://addons.mozilla.org/ | ||
- | | + | **Security plugins** |
+ | | ||
- | ==== Identifiable Browser configurations ==== | + | **Privacy plugins to block tracking** |
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
- | | + | **Advanced plugins** |
- | ==== Request Policy ==== | + | WARNING! Only enable JavaScript, and especially plugins like Java, and Flash for sites you **trust**. |
- | + | ||
- | Advanced. | + | |
+ | * [[https:// | ||
* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
- | ==== Certificate Patrol ==== | ||
- | Your browser trusts many certification authorities and intermediate sub-authorities quietly, every time you enter an HTTPS web site. The Firefox | + | **Certificate plugins** |
+ | |||
+ | Your browser trusts many certification authorities and intermediate sub-authorities quietly, every time you enter an HTTPS web site. The Firefox | ||
- | //FIXME Please review | + | //FIXME Please review |
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
===== Web search ===== | ===== Web search ===== | ||
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* Use antivirus software and a firewall. Do regular scans & updates | * Use antivirus software and a firewall. Do regular scans & updates | ||
* Regularly update all of the software you find on this page | * Regularly update all of the software you find on this page | ||
+ | * Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach on [[https:// | ||
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===== Web Browsing ===== | ===== Web Browsing ===== | ||
- | * [[https:// | + | * [[https:// |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
===== Chat ===== | ===== Chat ===== |