An unofficial macOS Security and Privacy Guide - a bit more intense, but good to read through to learn about more advanced steps.privacytools.io - A well-maintained list of recommended tools and settings to enhance your privacy.Separately, they recently published a blog post called “Digital Security Tips for Protesters”. EFF also has guides for different roles like activist or protester.Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense Guide.Micah Lee has some other easy-to-follow security guides on his Intercept author page.Surveillance Self-Defense Against the Trump Administration.

NYTimes: Protecting Your Digital Life in 7 Easy Steps is fine though I don’t think you need to change passwords bi-weekly, as it suggests in one paragraph.Shelton’s also written a sort of “guide to security guides” that I haven’t read yet but is likely useful.Securing Your Life Like a Normal Person by Martin Shelton.

Mostly through a collection of subreddits like r/privacy, r/privacytoolsIO, r/security, r/crypto, and r/encryption I got some basic information and found some well-regarded privacy guides: Guides

In addition the books mentioned above, I got most of my information from Reddit and Twitter. More recently I read a few books about computer security, most notably Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier, and a few on open-source software and Linux: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Coding Freedom (which I admired for its liberal art sensibility), and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lessig, the last of which I wrote a blog post if you’re interested. Some of this impetus had been slowly growing since the Snowden/NSA revelations and catching the documentary Citizen 4. Over the summer of 2016 I started to pay a little more attention to my privacy and security on the internet and when using computers more generally.

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