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Security in-a-box

Tactical Tech resources that show you how to remain anonymous online, how to protect your data and communications and how to set up the tools you need in order to achieve this.

Security in-a-box contains all you need to know about digital security. The eleven chapters of the Security in-a-box booklet show you how to remain anonymous online and how to protect your data and communications, while the hands-on guides teach you how to set up the tools you need.

Created for human rights advocates by Tactical Tech and Frontline Defenders, Security in-a-box is one of the most comprehensive and well-known toolkits on digital security around. It is available in English, Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, Burmese, Amharic, Bahasa and Tibetan, and can be downloaded as a PDF.

The website is updated frequently to keep you up to date with new tools and changes in already-existing ones.

If you want to jump right in, some of the resources featured in the Watching out for Yourself section of Exposing the Invisible link to specific chapters of Security in-a-box.

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