Staying safe online for scientists

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Keeping track of my work during my Mozilla Science Lab Fellowship

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Staying safe online for scientists #29

Open blahah opened 8 years ago

blahah commented 8 years ago

Lots of scientists want to discuss or research things that, if they do so openly, might lead to them being attacked. I'll write a simple guide to working safely, anonymously and securely online.

blahah commented 8 years ago

Basic stuff to write about:

Safe from whom? Threat models
Privacy
- Allowing people to contact you privately - encryption
- PGP
- Keybase
- Signal
- Ricochet
Anonymity
- persona isolation
- TOR and TorBrowser
- Tails
Staying in control
- Deny-by-default traffic filtering
- Isolated environments
- Creating your own secure architecture