Content Update #141

Good Practices:

• Added Three types of passphrases (FPF) to the Device password chapter.
• Added An in-depth guide to choosing a VPN (FPF) to the VPN chapter.
• Added What about antivirus? (FPF) to the Anti-malware software chapter.

Articles:

• Added What about antivirus?.
• Added Three types of passphrases.
• Added Verifying open source software.
• Added An in-depth guide to choosing a VPN.

Resources:

• Added Fight for the Future as a new paragraph.
• Added Digital Security Blog, Guides & Training, and News & Advocacy links to the Freedom of The Press Foundation (FPF) paragraph.

Content Update #140

Hello everyone! Starting with this update I’ll be no longer providing Precisely Private as a PDF or an eBook. I have decided to focus on making the Precisely Private onion better and more complete instead.

In other news: As you may have noticed I haven’t posted a Privacy Discourse update in a few months now. I have decided to temporarily put the project on hold. Feel free to reach out if you’d like I bring it back. Today’s change log is as follows…

Everywhere:

• Updated page footers on every page that has one to remove links to the Downloads page.

Tools:

• Updated Tails paragraph description and links.

Newsletter:

• Removed link to The Privacy Discourse series.

About:

• Improved the paragraph about the Precisely Private onion.
• Removed links to the Downloads page.

General:

• The Precisely Private onion is no longer and essentials edition and is now a full version of Precisely Private (again). I have updated the Welcome to the Precisely Private onion blog post to reflect this change.
• Made the Downloads page unavailable.
• Made the File integrity verification page unavailable.

Content Update #139

Get the latest version of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF here.

Audio and Video:

• Reorganized the whole page into different categories. Items are sorted in reverse chronological order whithin each page section.
• Added Privacy And Power: Your Digital Fingerprint (Part 1), What Your Apps Say About You (Part 2), and The Illusion Of Choice (Part 3) from NBC News to the Privacy is power section.
• Added Implications of the Global Push to Ban End-to-End Encryption (RSA Conference) and Why The U.S. Government And Big Tech Disagree On Encryption (CNBC) to the Digital and privacy rights section.
• Removed What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet | Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman (TED)

Articles:

• Added Windows 10 Privacy Guide: Settings Everyone Should Use (Bleeping Computer).

Resources:

• Updated description for the Chayn paragraph.
• Added Street-Level Surveillance: A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) paragraph.

Content Update #138

Get the latest version of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF here.

Tools:

• Improved page organization with new and better named sections.

Audio and Video:

• Fixed page menu links.

Content Update #137

Get the latest version of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF here.

Quick Guides:

• Added Tutanota to the Email paragraph of the Quick Alternatives Guide.
• Added Tutanota to the new Calendar paragraph of the Quick Alternatives Guide. I should mention that Proton Technologies is working on an encrypted calendar as well (ProtonCalendar). The product is currently in the beta phase of development and I hope I’ll be able to add it to Precisely Private in the not so distant future 🙂

Tools:

• Added Tutanota to the Private conversations and meetings section.
• Added links to guides on how to migrate from Gmail, Outlook.com, or Yahoo! Mail to ProtonMail to the ProtonMail paragraph.

Content Update #136

Get the latest version of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF here.

Good Practices:

• Removed all mentions to and material from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (which is part of GCHQ) throughout the page.
• Removed link to the Next-gen security with Windows Defender Antivirus video from Microsoft, which was previously available in the Anti-malware software chapter.

Tools:

• Added a link to the Does KeePassXC work on mobile phones? If not, which app would you recommend? section of the KeePass Documentation and FAQ page to the KeePassXC paragraph.

Audio and Video:

• Removed People: The Strongest Link (NCSC)
• Removed The Cutting Edge of Human Rights (Singularity University Summits)
• Removed United for a Safer Cyberspace (Singularity University Summits)
• Removed Next-gen security with Windows Defender Antivirus (Microsoft)

Articles:

• Removed Setting up two-factor authentication (2FA) (NCSC blog)
• Removed Living with password re-use (NCSC blog)
• Remove How Dropbox securely stores your passwords (Dropbox)

Resources:

• Renamed the News section to News and newsletters.
• Removed NCSC blog from the Blogs section.

Content Update #135

Get the latest version of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF here.

Good Practices:

• Added a link to the Mythbusting and understanding VPNs with JP Taggart episode of the Lock and Code podcast from Malwarebytes to the VPN chapter.

Quick Guides:

• Updated the Video conferences and group calls section of the Quick Alternatives Guide to add a few more services that WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Jitsi Meet can be a good alternative to, plus a few minor language improvements throughout the page.

Audio and Video:

• Added Mythbusting and understanding VPNs with JP Taggart (Lock and Code podcast/Malwarebytes).