Dear journalists and activists—indeed, anyone who is concerned about security online. See this awesome, accessible security guide by @citizenlab. Try it out! I will also put some more specific suggestions for high-risk people in thread below!
https://securityplanner.org/#/
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Protect your personal email! It's the key to your online life. If you use Gmail (best security option for many people but with the unfortunate privacy trade-off as exposure to Google), please enable two-factor WITH A SECURITY KEY. This is the best guide. https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_gmail.htm …
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You can also use a security key to protect your Facebook account! (You can use the same security key as second-factor to multiple accounts, and have a friend's security key be your backup—they can't enter your account without password so it works!)
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This is the hardest problem. No feasible way to download & open attachments on Microsoft OS and have that machine be safe. Windows has been and is a security nightmare. Forward/open all attachments in: an iPad or iPhone or a Chromebook. On Windows, only open them in Google Drive.
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Are you, like most journalists and activists, reaching out to people via Twitter DM? Your immediate move for (non-anonymous) conversation is: "Hey, can we move to Signal or WhatsApp"? Do not chatter on unencrypted Twitter DM. Twitter is too easy to hack, still no security key.
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Concerned with giving out your phone number? Get a second one. Here's a guide. You can get a second phone number on most phones via apps pretty easily for max $10 a month. Worth every penny. Also good to separate work/life.https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-phone-number/ …
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When/if your Twitter account gets hacked, it's not your public tweets that pose a danger. Your DM conversation can be screenshotted and taken out of context for viral misinformation campaigns. DO NOT MAKE BAD JOKES ON DM. Do not chatter on Twitter DM until Twitter fixes security.
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Travel with a Chromebook. Chromebooks are hardest to hack by design, and easiest to wipe. You can literally wipe it with a shortcut key. Here's Google's help page (which sucks, as usual because Google can't invest in help pages
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Replying to @zeynep
Would you mind if I reprinted these tweets on a blog post for AHCJ (assoc of health care journalists)? Since Storify is out of commission, I’ll use a different similar service
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