Surveillance Self-Defense Reviews

Tails Reviews

Surveillance Self-Defense mentions (34)

• I need advice - Project 2025

  Https://ssd.eff.org/ and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ which say in summary use open source and encrypted solutions. Also replace your current services with privacy respecting services when you can. Source: 8 months ago

• Need help ensuring safe communication

  I'd start here: https://ssd.eff.org/ and https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/security/how-to-protect-your-privacy/. Source: 11 months ago

• Fat means of dealing with an obsessed stalker?

  In terms of privacy: start by setting your accounts to private. Change your voicemail password. Add a PIN to your phone and bank when transacting on the phone. Pull your credit and look for suspicious pulls. Use a service to erase your online footprint. Follow the "Surveillance Self Defense" guide the EFF puts out (https://ssd.eff.org/). Source: 12 months ago

• Confused about the starting point in the privacy focused digital life

  One thing that helps is to first conduct an honest threat profile on yourself. Few of us require extreme measures, some of us can get by with several tweaks while making mindful choices going forward. Sometimes, people fall into the rabbit hole of thinking they need to go from 0 to 10 when a 3 or 5 is better for their situation. One situation might warrant your briefly using a 7 setting, then setting your privacy... Source: about 1 year ago

• How can I best prime a team of volunteers to prepare to counter advanced threats at home?

  Https://ssd.eff.org/ might be one good place to start. More generally, if you are being attacked by adversaries for journalistic work, the EFF may be able to help or refer you to experts. Source: about 1 year ago

Tails mentions (385)

• Ten years from Snowden revelations – what's next for Tor and privacy online?

  I’m not sure about the Tor project, but the closely-related Tails project (which is excellent, BTW) seems to be uncomfortably adjacent to far-left anarchist groups. Their website, https://tails.boum.org, is hosted by one such group, and on it they prominently link to another anarchist “collective” called RiseUp. Why are we okay with this kind of implicit endorsement of violence-adjacent groups? It should be just... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• very strange

  I noticed that the website url https://tails.boum.org/ was changed to https://tails.net/. Does anyone know why? Source: 8 months ago

• My Mother Found Out I was Installing Linux...

  If you pop this onto a USB you can leave a beautiful Windows installation on your computer unfettled with: https://tails.boum.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• How does this work in Proton?! I was told it's impossible...

  If you want to factor out your host machine entirely whilst surfing the web, have a look at https://tails.boum.org/ . Source: 11 months ago

• Is it possible for a skilled hacker or government to remotely access my computer?

  Tails is a security-focused Linux distro that (by default) only runs as a live-USB and is not meant to be used as a traditional daily-driver. As you've probably understood by now, it's a 'limited' system for the sake of security and privacy. At least it's assuring to have a far better protected distro than what distros like Arch/Debian/Fedora offer by default. Source: 11 months ago