Security for journalists
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if sharing passwords etc when people can't access Passbolt or whatever, send half over WhatsApp and half over Signal – never a whole one and especially not over here
a couple of useful tests around getting phished – I nearly got had by someone who was pretending to be Tara Miran using a fake email the other day and plus another where you can test sus URLS
if you've never been on here before, always good to check your personal email security this is also built into firefox in the menu under passwords.
this tool which looks useful for social media mining – and can also be used to check your own online identity – it shows a scary amount of info
Crypt pad, which is a secure open-source Google drive alternative, not practical for the whole Cable to use but if media team set up an account then we could use it to store supporting docs for stories etc allowing us to collaborate better and make confidential material available to one another – which could be extremely useful for example if someone is away from work
Want to browser websites with out being tracked?
Sounds like a conspiracy but Chrome by default saves all of your search history and mines your information to pay for the browser, which could give a person the shivers! If you find Tor too slow then ! Highly recommend the privacy badger and ublock orgin as addons
- stop trackers and adverts
- eats tracking cookies as it goes
- keep facebook from running in none facebook tabs
If you use these sort of plug-in in chrome it's a bit useless as google all the time are making new ways of tracking that circumvents the plugins that it runs!
has my email address and password been stolen?
This is particularly useful if you don't have an open source operating system like macosx or windows and need to research something securely. Tor browser makes it hard to be spied on, Tails makes it very very hard to be spied on. Best ran from a usb, see:
Want generalised help with something specific i highly recommend it's great!