This material was originally created to go along with a community cybersecurity training conference. The PowerPoint used can be found here
- Electronic Frotier Foundation
- The leading non-profit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
- Check out their Surveillance Self-Defense resources
- The privacy subreddit
- Digital Security Checklist for Activists
- 404 Media
- Journalist founded media company focussed on technology
- A large list of recommended tools
- Ublock Origin: an addblocker extenion for multiple browsers
- Mullvad VPN
- My recommended VPN
- LibreWolf Browser
- Firefox with better security defaults
- Tor Browser
- Bitwarden Password Manager
- Privacy Badger
- Browser extension that prevents trackers
- Introduction to Digital Self-Defense
- Atlas of Surveillance
- Documenting surveillance techniques used across the country. Also includes a map of user reported surveillance systems
- Hitchhicker's Guide to Online Anonymity
- Great guide documenting how to stay anonymous online. A bit advanced, but can be followed by anyone willing to read carefully
- Maoist Internationlist Ministry of Prisons
- PortSwigger Web Security Info
- This is targeted more towards professionals, but there's good information here. PortSwigger creates hacking tools for Security Professionals.
- California Police track immigration protestors with AI
- Authorities are creating AI profiles on social media to collect intelligence
- Miami-Dade county purchased and used Cell-Site Simulators for tracking protestors
- Detroit has used IMSI catchers to find and deport illegal immigrants
- ACLU discusses why end-to-end encryption is important
- Doxxing prevention and mitigation
- Police use dragent search techniques to arrest murder suspects
- ICE is accessing an AI facial recognition survice (Flock) to track immigrants
- Facebook has tracked Android users' activity accross apps without permission
- Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America by Michael Bazzell
- Definitive guide for erasing one's digital footprint.
- "Turn Off Your Phone": Digital Security Zine
- An Activists Guide to Information Security Zine
- The Palestine Library: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
- Tribe of Hackers
- Collection of stories and advice from cybersecurity professionals
- Sandworm by Andy Greenburg
- Covering the largest scale cyberattack in history. Russian attackers take down Ukraine's power grid.
- Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
- Spyware developed by Israel that can be remotely installed on mobile phones
- It Could Happen Here podcast episode about digital hygeine
- Specifically targeting vulnerable groups, and how they can protect themselves from getting doxxed.
- Darknet Diaries
- A podcast about hackers, breaches, and techniques used by malicious actors
- Security Now
- A podcast directed towards cybersecurity professionals