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Awesome Privacy & Securty 
A curated list of useful tools and resources online, that help protect your privacy and keep you safe.
See also: Personal Security Checklist | Privacy-Respecting Software 🔐
- Information and Guides
- Media
- Websites & Services
- Organisations
- Research
- More Lists
Getting Started Guides
- EFF SSD - Tips for safer online communications
- PrivacyTools.io - Tools to protect against mass surveillance
- PrismBreak - Secure app alternatives
- The VERGE guide to privacy - Guides for securing mobile, web and home tech
- Email Self-Defense - Complete guide to secure email
- TwoFactorAuth.org - Check which websites support 2FA
- Security Planner - Great advise for beginners
- My Shaddow - Resources and guides, to help you take controll of your data
How-To Guides
- Complete guide to configureing Firefox for Privacy + Speed: via 12bytes
- Overview of projects working on next-generation secure email: via OpenTechFund
- ISP and DNS privacy tips: via bluz71
- Layers of Personal Tech Security: via The Wire Cutter
- Improving security on iPhone: via lifehacker
- Protect against SIM-swap scam: via wired
- Is your Anti-Virus spying on you: via Restore Privacy
- How to use Vera Crypt: via howtogeek
- How to enable DNS over HTTPS: via geekwire
- How to resolve DNS leak issue: via DNSLeakTest
- Windows data sending: via The Hacker News
- How to spot a phishing attack: via EFF
Notable Articles
- Turns Out Police Stingray Spy Tools Can Indeed Record Calls: Article on Wired
Blogs
- Spread Privacy - Raising the standard of trust online, by DuckDuckGo
- Restore Privacy - Tools and guides about privacy and security
- That One Privacy Site - impartial comparisons and discussions
- The Hated One - Privacy and security videos
- 12Bytes - Opinion Articles about Tech, Privacy and more
- BringBackPrivacy - Easy-reading, sharable privacy articles
- Heimdal - Cyber Security Blog
- Tech Crunch - Cyber Security 101
- OONI, Internet freedom and analysis on blocked sites
- Pixel Privacy - Online privacy guides
- The Privacy Project - Articles and reporting on Privacy, by the NYT
Books
- Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden)
- Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg)
Podcasts
- Darknet Diaries (by Jack Rhysider): Stories from the dark sides of the internet. Listen on Stitcher
- CYBER (by Motherboard, Vice): News and analysis about the latest cyber threats. Listen on Stitcher
Videos
- General
- You are being watched by The New York Times
- The Power of Privacy by The Guardian
- Why Privacy matters, even if you have nothing to hide by The Hated One
- TED Talks
- Why you should switch off your home WiFi by Bram Bonné
- Why Privacy Matters, by Glenn Greenwald
- Fighting viruses, defending the net, by Mikko Hypponen
- The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare, by Chris Domas
- State Sanctioned Hacking - The Elephant in the Room - Historic, economic and demographic overview of the growing threat to the U.S. from Chinese cyber invasions, by Frank Heidt
- How the IoT is Making Cybercrime Investigation Easier - How our data is changing the nature of "evidence" in digital forensics, by Jonathan Rajewski
- Conferences
- DEF CON 27 - Collection of talks from DEF CON 2019, Vegas
- RSA Conference - Collection of security talks from the RSA conferences
- Administraitor.video - A regularly updated collection of new and interesting security confrence talks
- Misc
- Through a PRISM, Darkly - Everything we know about NSA spying, by Kurt Opsahl
See also: awesome-sec-talks by @PaulSec
Online Tools
- Have I been Pwned and Dehashed - Check if your details have been compromised
- Redirect Detective - Check where a suspicious URL redirects to
- εxodus - Check which trackers any app on the Play Store has
- VirusTotal - Analyse a suspicious web resource for malware
- ScamAdviser - Check if a website is a scam, before buying from it
- Deseat Me - Clean up your online presence
- 33Mail or Anonaddy Avoid revealing your real email address, by auto-generating aliases for each accound
- Panopticlick - Check if, and how your browser is tracking you
- Disroot - A suit of online tools, with online freedom in mind
- Blocked by ORG - Check if your website is blocked by certain ISPs
- Data Rights Finder - Find, understand and use information from privacy policies
- Browser Leaks - Check which information is being leaked by your browser
- DNSLeakTest - Check for and fix a DNS leak
- IP Leak - Shows your IP address, and other associated details
- ExifRemove - Remove Meta/ EXIF data online
Anonymous Services
Interesting Websites
- The Intercept: Surveillance Catalogue - A database secret of government and military surveillance equpment, that was leaked in the Snowden files
- See also: The source code for these projects, on WikiLeaks Vault7 and Vault8, and the accompanying press release
Privacy-Respecting Software
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Foundations
- Contract for the Web
- Electronic Frountier Foundation - Defending digital privacy + more
- OWASP Foundation
- Freedom House - Fighting for freedom on the net
- Privacy International
- Open Tech Fund
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Open Rights Group
- LEAP Encryption Access Project
- The Guardian Project
- Foundation for Applied Privacy
- Safe + Secure - advise for journalists and film makers
- Citizen Lab
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Free Software Foundation
- Courage Foundation - Supports those who risk life / liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record
Government Organisations
Cybercrime
- Consumer Fraud Reporting - US's Catalogue of online scams currently circulating, and a means to report cases
- Action Fraud - UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime
Data and API's
- Exploit Database - A database or Current software vulnerabilities
- That One Privacy Site - Detailed VPN Comparison Data
- Exodus - Trackers in Android Apps
- URLScan - Service scanning for malisious domains
- Dehashed - Data Breaches and Credentials
- VirusTotal - Detailed virus scans of software
- Hosts to block: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Academic Journals
- Crypto Paper by Crypto Seb- Privacy, Security, and Anonymity For Every Internet User
Implementations and Standards
- The GNU Privacy Guard
- OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
- WireGuard
- Nym - Next Generation of Privacy infrastructure
Mega Guides
- by Fried
- by ivpn
- by ProPrivacy
- by Heimdal Security
- by Wired
- by Vice
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- privacy-respecting by @nikitavoloboev
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- awesome-security by @sbilly
- awesome-sec-talks by @PaulSec
- awesome-crypto-papers by @pFarb
- awesome-threat-intelligence by @hslatman
- awesome-incident-response by @meirwah
- awesome-anti-forensic by @remiflavien1
- awesome-malware-analysis by @rshipp
- awesome-honeypots by @paralax
- awesome-hacking by @carpedm20
- awesome-pentest by @enaqx
- awesome-ctf by @apsdehal
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