Below is a collection of resources from Oh Shit! What Now?’s “Take Back Your Online Privacy: Dox Resisters Edition” class. We either used these resources and links in the creation of the class, or they offer opportunities for further learning and study.

Oh Shit! What Now? offers basic computer security classes every other month, but the June 2017 class focused on the risk of “doxing,” or having private information published by trolls and fascists online with the intent to threaten or hurt you. For more general resources on computer security, check out “Take Back Your Online Privacy: Computer Security Resources For Activists & Everyday Humans.”

Key resources

• 9 Ways To Dodge Trolls — “A Feminist’s Guide to Digital Security”
• Facebook Privacy Checkup — a useful tool for checking your Facebook settings
• Opt Out Of Data Brokers — a comprehensive guide to sites that list your personal info
• Preventing Doxing — a guide from online privacy group Crash Override
• So You’ve Been Doxed — Crash Override’s guide to cleaning up the mess after the dox get published
• Surveillance Self Defense, the EFF’s guide to protecting yourself online
• Time to Beef up Defense Against Far-Right Doxxing — focused on safety for activists and social movements

Apps

• DuckDuckGo, a search engine which doesn’t track you
• Have I Been Pwned? search if your online accounts were compromised in major security breaches
• HTTPS Everywhere, forced browsers to use more secure HTTPS websites whenever possible
• Signal, from Open Whisper Systems (search for it in your app store), for secure encrypted messaging & phone calls
• Tor Browser, makes it harder to trace & track your online activity

Further reading

• 70-Day Web Security Action Plan for Artists and Activists Under Siege, a step by step plan for getting more secure
• Bluetooth: Just How Secure Is It? and Review of Bluetooth Attacks and How to Secure Mobile Workforce Devices — two guides to the security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth
• Communications Security from Riseup.net, don’t be the weak link in your activist plans
• CryptoParty, a great security guide especially if you want to teach others and make it fun
• DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity, another take on online security form a feminist perspective
• Do Household Printers Leave an Invisible Tracking Code on All Your Printed Documents? — one way whistleblower Reality Winner may have been caught
• Sprout Distro’s Zines About Security, a variety of zines offering bite size security learning
• Things to Consider When Crossing the US Border, especially important now for all travelers
• Two-factor authentication: What you need to know (FAQ)
• Two Factor Auth List, a list of sites and apps that support two-factor authentication

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