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Using Technology to Defend Digital Privacy & Human Rights – Presentation Notes

If you attended my talk “Using Technology to Defend Digital Privacy & Human Rights”, thank you! Here’s a list of supplemental material discussed during the presentation as well as where you can find out additional information about the topics covered. I’m happy to answer any questions that you might have via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Targeted attacks in Egypt
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/egyptian-rights-activists-are-targeted-by-sophisticated-hacking-attacks/

Mexico and targeted Spyware
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/20/533682738/mexicos-government-is-accused-of-targeting-journalists-and-activists-with-spywar
https://citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckless-exploit-mexico-nso/

UAE – Mansoor Discussion
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-12/the-forgotten-story-of-ahmed-mansoor/9142004
https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_Five

Information about Pegasus Spyware
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-spyware/14604/

Russia Banning the Use of VPNs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet/putin-bans-vpns-to-stop-russians-accessing-prohibited-websites-idUSKBN1AF0QI
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-law-banning-anonymous-online-surfing-comes-into-effect-59434
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41829726

China’s Great Firewall blocking VPN apps and Skype
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14399729/1/skype-vanishes-from-app-stores-in-china.html

Mass Surveillance in the United States
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/25/us-new-evidence-suggests-monitoring-americans

Educating yourself on Social Engineering and Phishing (social-engineer.org is a great resource)
https://www.social-engineer.org/resources/social-engineering-infographic/

Signal
How Signal’s Censorship Circumvention Works
https://signal.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/

More information about Tor and to download Tor Browser
https://www.torproject.org/
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

How to use Pluggable Transports to bypass censorship in Tor
https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en

TAILS USB and Virtual Machine
https://tails.boum.org/

Whonix Virtual Machine
https://www.whonix.org/

My Recommended VPN Provider
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com

My Recommended Secure Email Provider
https://protonmail.com

Good list of “burner” mobile phones
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/7-great-burner-phones/

Mobile Security Guide for Activists and Journalists
https://freedom.press/training/mobile-security-for-activists-and-journalists/

Mobile Device Security
https://www.vice.com/da/article/dp9zvq/how-to-avoid-self-incrimination-via-smartphone
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/08/18/the_new_iphone_update_will_help_prevent_cops_from_searching_your_locked.html

EFFs (Electronic Frontier Foundation) – Surveillance Self-Defense Portal
https://ssd.eff.org/

If you missed this Jolt I’ll be presenting this talk again at other venues in the near future. Be sure to follow me on social media for upcoming dates.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from spylogic.net authored by Tom. Read the original post at: https://www.spylogic.net/2017/12/using-technology-to-defend-digital-privacy-human-rights-presentation-notes/