Digital Security

General resources

• Digital Security by Front Line Defenders: addresses the ways in which information technology affected human rights defenders in their work 
• Anonymous Blogging by Global Voices Advocacy: intended to reduce the chances that your identity will be linked to your online writing through technical means - i.e., through a government or law enforcement agency obtaining records from an Internet Service Provider.
• Digital Security and Privacy by Front Line Defenders: educating ordinary computer users and providing them with solutions to problems of privacy and security in a modern digital environment.
• Digital Security First-Aid Kit by Association for Progessive Communications: contains short guides for human rights defenders who related to communication and digital security. 
• Digital security for human rights reporters, by Speak Up, Speak Out: basic digital security precautions for journalists and reporters
• Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (also version in: French, Chinese - Circumvent Censorship chapter, Chinese - Blog Anonymously chapter) by Reporters Without Borders
• Security in a Box by Front Line Defenders
• Article: “Human Rights Software: Information Support Solutions For Social Justice” by Richard Hayman
• Blog for a Cause!: Guide of Blog Advocacy (also version in: Chinese, Spanish, French) by Global Voices Advocacy
• Protektor Manual - a guide on using security related software on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Specific resources to enhance digital security:

• Secure Texting - CryptoSMS, SMS 007, and Kryptext
• Secure email - Hushmail, Rise Up, and VaultletMail
• Secure internet browsing - Tor Software, Psiphon, and CCleaner
• Secure instant messaging - Pidgin
• Secure VoIP – Zfone
• Secure password storage – KeePass
• Secure mobile phones – The Guardian Project
• Hard drive encryption - Bitlocker, TrueCrypt, PGP Whole Disk Encryption, and Check Point
• Cell Phones and Activism: A word of caution
• Open Office and Ubuntu Linux