Surveillance Self-Defense

Summary

EFF’s free, regularly updated guide to protecting yourself from surveillance. It covers threat modeling, passwords, device encryption, secure messaging, browser security, and physical security, plus “playlists” for specific groups such as journalists, activists, and LGBTQ youth. It is available in many languages.

Why it’s useful here

• The practical reference to link from guides instead of rewriting basics.
• Its threat modeling method (what you’re protecting, from whom, and how bad failure would be) is a template for a household or community threat modeling guide.
• Written for non-experts, which matches the blog’s audience.

Key ideas

• Threat modeling / security planning as the first step
• Choose tools based on your threat model, not on hype
• Security as an ongoing practice

Related

• brunton-nissenbaum-2015-obfuscation.md
• schneier-2015-data-and-goliath.md