Your world is different than mine
I’ve got to get over, I’ve got to forget
And “Sgurd” is the one I don’t like
I’m afraid of him, I’ve got to forget. Hooverphonic, Battersea
These links are provided as a convenience to you and to assist in your search for information. Constantly updated (March, 2021).
The list is quite big so you’d better start by choosing a category from the Table of Contents to the right.
Security
- Linux Hardening Guide
- Awesome Hacking
- ArchLinux dm-crypt
- macOS Security and Privacy Guide
- Hardening OSX 10.11 El Capitan
- Tails
- Twitter Activist Security
- Awesome Security
- Surveillance Self-Defense
- The Paranoid Security Guide
- Jolly Rogers' Security Guide for Beginners
- Datasec Handbook
- Security Education 101
- Computer Security Education
- Security Is Not an Absolute
- nets.ec - old Blackhat Library
- How to Exit the Matrix
- Security in a Box
Penetration testing
- Mobile Application Penetration Testing Cheat Sheet
- Preparing for Penetration Testing
- Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security & Security Research
- Burp Suite
Password checking/cracking
Malware analysis/forensics
- Awesome Malware Analysis
- Awesome Forensics
- Malware Decoder
- Reverse Engineering Malware 101 and Reverse Engineering Malware 102
- SIFT Workstation
- Live Malware samples
- Tips for Reverse-Engineering Malicious Code PDF download
- IDA Pro
Privacy
- Reclaim Your Face
- Email self-defense
- GPG Tutorial
- privacytools.io
- The GNU Privacy Handbook
- Prism Break
- Pi-hole
- Staying Safe When You Say #MeToo
- Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH
- Deflect
Media
Operating Systems
Browsers
Email Providers
Communication
- Telegram
- Threema
- Wire
- Matrix.org
and
Riot.imElement - Briar
- On the security of WhatsApp and Telegram
Signal- don’t use Signal- Signal Server hasn’t been updated since April 22, 2020 - link
- Open Whisper Systems was funded by the Open Technology Fund , a well-known CIA spinoff - link
- Moxie Marlinspike is pro centralization and against federation - rebuttal
- Signal team is completely irresponsible and putting people’s life at risk
- Signal is open source in the same way
pfsenseis: it is impossible to actually build everything current from publicly available source. - Signal is yet another lock-in silo.
- Signal is a government op
- I don’t trust Signal
Source Code Management
Decentralization
Hosting
DNS services
Virtualization
VPN stuff
Hardware
- Puri.sm
- Neo900
- System 76
- Novena
- RISC-V
- GPD Pocket
- Arduino
- Turris Omnia
- Raspberry Pi
- Ben Eater (yes, Ben Eater puts the hard in hardware)
- Andrew Huang
Mobile
Books
– no links, use your favorite online store –
- Data Hiding - Exposing Concealed Data in Multimedia, Operating Systems, Mobile Devices and Network Protocol by Michael Raggo and Chet Hosmer
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
- Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Tamachandran and Cameron Buchanan
- The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
- Threat Modeling by Adam Shostack
- Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd and Susan Carnicero
- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Trent R. Hein
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure by Lee Brotherston and Amanda Berlin
- Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World’s Most Secure Networks by Wil Allsopp
- Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information by Michael Bazzell
Organizations
- ACLU
- GNU
- FSF
- IndieWeb
- Privacy International
- eQualit.ie
- Center for Humane Technology
- Tactical Tech
- Dotsrc.org
Activism
Journalism
OS dev
- OSDev.org
- POSIX Threads Programming
- Intel manuals
- Genode OS framework
- Guidebook GUI Gallery
- ReactOS
- Sortix
- ToaruOS
- Inferno
- Plan9
Game dev
- Ars Phantasia
- The Alexandrian
- Amit Patel’s Red Blob Games
- Fantasy & Science Fiction for Storytellers
- Neon Helium Productions
- LibreGameWiki
- OpenTTD
- Freeciv
Cyberpunk and futurism
Literature
CubeSat
Retro
Photography
Others
- The Big List of Personal Websites
- Sci-Hub
- Essential Image Optimization
- Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates
- The Library of Technomadics
- LOW ← TECH MAGAZINE
- href.cool
- Project Gemini
- The Whimsical Web
- Little Big Details
- Weird Wide Webring
- The Useless Web
- The Geocities Gallery
- The Eye
- Urbit
- Squat the Planet
People
– in random order –
- John P. Willis
- Richard Stallman
- Joey Hess
- Charlie Harrington
- Tara Vancil
- Alisa Esage
- Jimmy Cauty
- Cory Doctorow
- Scott Aaronson
- Cassie Evans
- Rachel Kroll
- Brendan Howell
- Roy Tang
- Dan Nemec
- Lesley Carhart
- Karissa McKelvey
- Sofía Celi
- Daniel Gruss
- Vassilis Rizopoulos
- Oona Räisänen
- Douglas Crockford
- Matthias Ott
- Bill Drummond
- Christine Dodrill
- Lea Verou
- Aleksandar Totic
- Sindre Sorhus
- Aral Balkan
- Paul Frazee
- Ophir Harpaz
- Alexandre Oliva
- Tracey Moberly
- Fabien Sanglard
- Matt Greer
- John Romero
- Karen Sawrey
- Sara Soueidan
- Addy Osmani
- Zach Holman
- Marie Gutbub
- Cosma Shalizi
- Feross Aboukhadijeh
- Laura Kalbag
- Martin Tournoij
- David Nolen
- Brett Cannon
- Fabrice Bellard
- Julia Evans
- Jeff Atwood
- Guillermo Rauch
- Danny de Vries
- Ricardo Cabello
- Salvatore Sanfillipo
- Ellie Huxtable