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Useful resource and parts could be used in the Net Safety workshop. "This kit contains short guides for human rights defenders who find themselves in emergencies related to communication and digital security. As guides are being added, individual sections of following scheme become active. While the kit does not provide exhaustive guidelines on how to respond to specific situations, it does suggest concrete steps, further resources and references to support groups to whom activists can turn to for further assistance."

Great step through of various actions you can take to secure your Gmail.

Some simple tips for online safety and protecting yourself and your data.

Article on the ease with which passwords can be cracked using relatively easily available tools.

Resources to help you understand your presence online and where and what might be happening to information about you.

A support network helping people who are being abused, stalked, hacked, doxed and threatened online. Started by the original victim of #gamergate.

Google Forms being used to collect info in phishing scam. Useful for net-safety.

Some useful (and maybe some are not!) suggestions on creating decent passwords.

Ladar Levison describes (see embedded video) something of why he shut his encrypted email service. Most of it is heavily alluded to because of the draconian gagging orders he is under. From a digital literacy perspective I think this is important in helping people consider the access to information that they transmit across the Internet which may be available to others, especially governmental and quasi governmental bodies.

Thoughts about supporting people to become self actualised on the web. A stepping stone to owning their own identity and space online.

An open source tool to make sure you know who you are talking to online. Likely to be seen as too geeky by most.