| TAILS (The Amnesiac Incognito Live System) | Secure workstation LiveCD | <https://tails.boum.org/> | A Linux Live edition for accessing TOR outside of your normal operating system (Note, for security reasons make sure your normal hard drive isn't accessible while booted into this, running encrypting with any whole drive encryption software should work). |
| Web of Trust | Website reputation checker | <https://www.mywot.com/> |
| Mailvelope | GPG Add-on for Firefox and Chrome. Needs vetting and only the chrome addon is available prebuilt from them but the ff adon is easy to build and can be built ahead of time if needed. | <http://www.mailvelope.com/> |
| Calomel SSL Validation | Analyzes SSL configuration of sites you visit and gives you an analysis with reasoning behind the rating. | <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/calomel-ssl-validation/> |
| ShareMeNot | Blocks sharing buttons and applets unless you specifically click on them to enable them. | <http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/> |
| HTTPS Finder | Automatically detect SSL capabilities. Generates rules for HTTPS Everywhere. | <https://github.com/kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder> |
| Web of Trust | Website reputation checker | <https://www.mywot.com/> |
| Mailvelope | GPG Add-on for Firefox and Chrome. Needs vetting and only the chrome addon is available prebuilt from them but the ff adon is easy to build and can be built ahead of time if needed. | <http://www.mailvelope.com/> |
| ShareMeNot | Blocks sharing buttons and applets unless you specifically click on them to enable them. | <http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/> |
| Encrypt Everything | <https://www.encrypteverything.ca/index.php?title=Main_Page> | Good resource on encryption for the web. Good resource for beginner to intermediate skill level. |
| Surveilance Self-Defense | <https://ssd.eff.org/> | EFF's guide to protecting yourself from digital surveilance. Extremely in-depth and detailed. For the advanced (or very paranoid). Not light reading. |
| Qualys Browsercheck | <https://browsercheck.qualys.com/> | Automated scanning of browser, plugins, and Windows updates for vulnerable, out-of-date configuration |
| SSL Labs | <https://www.ssllabs.com/> | Tool for checking any site's SSL setup for bad practices and vulnerabilities |
| Calomel SSL Validation | <https://calomel.org/firefox_ssl_validation.html> | Firefox add-on for analyzing and verifying SSL configurations of sites you visit. |
| DEATH NOTE: L, ANONYMITY & ELUDING ENTROPY | <http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity> | A.k.a., why "metadata" matters and how much the NSA can really know about you from your phone records. |
| Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere | <http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/> | Illustration of how to use seemingly useless data points to pin charges on someone. Told from the perspective of a British intelligence officer looking for trators in collonial America. |
| Intro level guide to Internet Security | <http://qz.com/120946/the-complete-guide-to-not-being-that-idiot-who-got-the-company-hacked/> | A guide for non-technical denizens of the Internet on how not to be low-hanging fruit for hackers. |
| How the Heartbleed Bug Works | <https://xkcd.com/1354/> | Nice illustration of how Heartbleed worked to give layfolk an idea of how some of these exploits happen and how client/server systems negotiate a connection. |
