Security Resources
Alternative service providers
Check out our list of radical server projects.
Guides on internet security
Software recommendations
- PRISM Break list of alternative software and services.
- EFF’s Secure Messaging Scorecard.
Usage guides for beginners
- Security in-a-box website contains many hands-on guides, from Front Line and Tactical Technology Collective.
- EFF’s Guide to Surveillance Self Defense (currently in 11 languages).
Advanced usage guides
- Getting started with Tails: The Amnesic Incognito Live System (EN/DE/FR/PT).
- Digital self defense guide (currently French language only, you can help translate).
- Cryptoparty Handbook.
- FOSS Manual on Bypassing Internet Censorship is a comprehensive 240 page guide to circumvention technologies.
- FOSS Manual on Basic Internet Security.
- Internet censorship wiki contains lots of information on circumventing internet censorship (currently only in English).
Out of date
These old guides are of historical significance and may sometimes even be useful.
- Riseup Zine: Digital Security for Activists!
- security.resist.ca Helping activists stay safe in our oppressive world.
- APC Security Docs A series of briefings on information security and online safety for civil society organizations.
- Guide to Email Security Using Encryption and Digital Signatures.
- Computer Security for the Average Activist A downloadable PDF.
- An introduction to activism on the internet.