Anonymous Planet [Tor] - a community contributed online guide to anonymity written for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed, censored, harassed anywhere
Privacy Guides [Tor] - a non-profit, socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy
Extreme Privacy 4th Edition - Michael Bazzell has helped hundreds of celebrities, billionaires, and everyday citizens disappear completely from public view.
Nihilism Network [Tor] - ultimately, this blog aims to showcase that technology, when used correctly, can allow one to transcend any limitation. be it to transcend surveillance, centralisation, deanonymization, lack of security. any ability that we have as humans, such as privacy, decentralisation, anonymity, security, plausible deniability can be protected and enhanced by using the correct technology.
Anonymous Land - a community dedicated to providing anonymity enhancing guides and services
No Trace Project [Tor] - no trace, no case. a collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught
Qubes OS for Anarchists [Tor] - Qubes OS is a security-oriented operating system (OS), which means it is an operating system designed from the ground up to be more difficult to hack. Given that anarchists are regularly targeted for hacking in repressive investigations, Qubes OS is an excellent choice
GrapheneOS for Anarchists - [Tor] - anarchists should not have phones. if you must use a phone, make it as difficult as possible for an adversary to geotrack it, intercept its messages, or hack it. this means using grapheneos
Tails for Anarchists [Tor] - tails is an operating system that makes anonymous computer use accessible to everyone. tails is designed to leave no trace of your activity on your computer unless you explicitly configure it to save specific data
Tails Opsec for Anarchists [Tor] - additional precautions you can take that are relevant to an anarchist threat model - operational security for tails
Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident [Tor] - if the police ever have physical access to an electronic device like a laptop, even for five minutes, they can install hardware keyloggers, create images of the storage media, or otherwise trivially compromise it at the hardware, firmware, or software level. one way to minimize this risk is to make it tamper-evident
Encrypted Messaging for Anarchists [Tor] - This article provides an overview and installation instructions for Tails, Qubes OS, and GrapheneOS encrypted messengers
Remove Identifying Metadata From Files [Tor] - metadata is âdata about dataâ or âinformation about informationâ. in the context of files, this can mean information that is automatically embedded in the file, and this information can be used to deanonymize you
Defending against Stylometric attacks [Tor] - stylometric fingerprinting analyzes unique writing style (i.e., it uses stylometry) to identify the author of a work. itâs one of the most common techniques for de-anonymization, used by adversaries ranging from trolls to law enforcement
Prism Break - opt out of global data surveillance programs like prism, xkeyscore and tempora.
The New Oil [Tor] - the beginnerâs guide to data privacy & cybersecurity
Techlore - a small team educating people about digital rights, privacy, security, digital control, and other important topics to push the world towards a safer internet
Advanced Privacy and Anonymity Using VMs, VPNâs, Tor - a series of guides that explains how to obtain vastly greater freedom, privacy and anonymity through compartmentalization and isolation through nested chains of VPNs and Tor
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: The Basics - surveillance self-defense is a digital security guide that teaches you how to assess your personal risk from online spying. it can help protect you from surveillance by those who might want to find out your secrets, from petty criminals to nation states
EFF Street Level Surveillance - EFFâs street-level surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities
Secure Communications Comparison - communicating securely over the internet is a must. this article compares available and actively-developed projects that are used for secure communications
Wiretapping the largest Russian XMPP server - xmpp (jabber) instant messaging protocol encrypted tls connection wiretapping (man-in-the-middle attack) of jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru) serviceâs servers on hetzner and linode hosting providers in germany
XMPP: Admin-in-the-middle - in our opinion, you canât refer to xmpp-based messaging as âprivacy-friendlyâ as long as you donât control all xmpp servers. an xmpp administrator (or any other server-side party) can inject arbitrary messages, modify address books, and log passwords in cleartext
Matrix linked Amdocs found tapping South African cell phones - south african agents wrote in a 2009 document that they suspected that israelâs secret service, mossad, was using israeli software giant amdocs to eavesdrop on mobile phone conversations and gather data
Desktop Linux Hardening - a guide that intermediate to advanced Linux users can reasonably follow to set up and maintain hardened security configurations
Linux - an article debunking common misunderstandings on desktop Linuxâs security model.
Linux Hardening Guide - how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy
Email (In)security - email is an inherently insecure protocol, conceived at a time when security was an afterthought
Fingerprinting Articles
NetworkManager Minor Hardening - MAC address randomization, removing static hostname to prevent hostname broadcast, and disabling sending hostname to DHCP server
Privacy Check - this website aims to focus on each fingerprinting technique in detail
scheme flooding - this vulnerability uses information about installed apps on your computer to assign you a permanent unique identifier even if you switch browsers, use incognito mode, or use a VPN.
SuperCookie - uses favicons to assign a unique identifier to website visitors. this ID can be stored almost persistently and cannot be easily cleared by the user
Webgl Fingerprinting - uses different techniques to recognize whether a browser extension is spoofing the webgl fingerprint
Zardaxt.py - TCP/IP fingerprinting for VPN and Proxy Detection
Surveillance Technology
Ears and Eyes - searchable database of cases of physical surveillance devices (microphones, cameras, location trackers) hidden by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to surveil people or groups engaged in subversive activities
Bugged Planet - a wiki about signals intelligence (SIGINT), communication intelligence (COMINT), tactical and strategical measures used to intercept communications and the vendors and governmental and private operators of this technology
Harris: Wide Area Airborne Motion Imagery - wide-area motion imagery offers persistent, real-time surveillance for enhanced situation awareness through an intelligent, airborne sensor system
Harris: Airborne Augmented Reality - video with augmented reality overlays enhances situation awareness for teams in the field, analysts and decision makers. overlays poi features, building names, and road names
Harris: Locate GPS Jamming - harris signal sentry 1000 is a gps interference detection and geolocation solution. it provides a web-based visualization tool to support timely and effective actionable intelligence.
Harris: Material Identification - harris material identification technology enables remote sensing systems to detect, identify and geolocate the presence of solid materials and gasses â on earth and in the atmosphere
Elbit Systems / SPECTRO XR - spectro xr integrates a wide range of digital imaging, high-definition optical sensors and advanced lasers, providing simultaneous multi-spectral observation capabilities and enabling ultra-long-range detection.
Police thermal imaging finds cannabis factory - It was a case of being caught red handed when the West Midlands Police helicopter found this cannabis factory using its thermal imaging camera
How Police Cameras Recognize and Track You - wired spoke with several experts about the explosion of surveillance technology, how police use it, and what the dangers might be. as tech advances, street cameras can now employ facial recognition and even connect to the internet. what does this mean for the future of privacy?
How Chinaâs Surveillance Is Growing More Invasive - analysis of over 100,000 government bidding documents found that Chinaâs ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known
Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees - babel x may provide to analysts a targetâs name, date of birth, address, usernames, email address, phone number, social media content, images, IP address, Social Security number, driverâs license number, employment history, and location data based on geolocation tags and also cell phone gps tracking