INTRODUCTORY GUIDES

This section aims to introduce you to the world of digital security. Although the manual provides short summaries of security concepts and tools, here we have collected a number of documents which explain the theory in more detail. They are written in accessible language and broadly cover the topics and methods of digital security. We recommend you to read this section as it is relevant to all the programs in the sBox.

Digital Security Guides - A collection of chapters on topics of digital security and privacy. The content relates to the software presented in the NGO in a Box - Security Edition. 

Participating with Safety - A series of guides developed by Association for Progressive Communications for the ItrainOnline project. This material will be of interest to those new to online security and privacy issues, as well as to resources for more advanced users:

• Introducing Information Security
• Backing-up Information
• Passwords and Access Controls
• Using Encryption and Digital Signatures
• Computer Viruses
• Using the Internet Securely
• Living Under Surveillance

Privaterra Security Guides:

• Passphrase Tips
• Passphrase Creation
• Encryption FAQ
• Office Management
• General Internet Tips for Internet Cafe's and beyond
• Insecurities and how to avoid them
• “Privacy and Security: The New Technologies "

Tech Soup - "An Introduction to Internet Security in the Workplace - Praise for the paranoid" - From protecting yourself from shoulder surfing in the office to safe-guarding your organization from major hacking endeavors, you can never be too careful. www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/internet/page1478.cfm or local copy

See this recently published document from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on internet blogging - Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents

Note: See also more guides in the Resources and links chapter

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