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Beginner's guide to improving online security
Williams, Margot
Article
2014
Investigative journalists like the members of ICIJ are facing growing concerns about security. Our members often work with leaks or other materials requiring protection of sources, collaborate across ...
Online Survival Kit
Article
2013
This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled ov...

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Campus Activism Against NSA Spying is Growing Fast
Claser, April
2014
EFF has been on the road, traveling to cities and towns across the country to bring our message of digital rights and reform to community and student groups. And while we had the tremendous opportunit...
Cyber-security workshop held successfully, despite police harassment
Reporters Without Borders
2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns repeated attempts by local police to harass and interrupt a digital security workshop that RSF and Defend the Defenders (DTD), a Vietnamese human rights group,...
EU: Enact Controls on Digital Weapons Trade
2012
Unregulated Export of Powerful Surveillance Tools Threatens Internet Freedom. Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch call on the European Union to enact new controls on Internet surveillance...
For journalists, danger lurking in your email
O'Brien, Danny
2012
Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software insta...
How can you protect yourself from online snooping?
Sources News Release
2013
Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data.
SAMSN 2014: Impunity, Gender and Digital Safety key focus areas for South Asia
Sources News Release
2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), a network of IFJ affiliates and partners in the region, in its commitment to work towards ending th...