Security Education
Security is a team sport. When communities learn good digital security practices together, what they learn is more likely to stick. It's also more effective – for example, there's little point in using encrypted communications if none of your friends use it.
Security Education is an archive of curated Deeplinks posts for trainers, technologists, and educators who teach digital security.
Whether you're looking for some tutorials to share with your friends, up-to-date news relating to digital security, or resources for your digital security trainings, we've compiled our best resources in Security Education.
Issues that we track here include: country-specific policy updates on security and privacy, updates on malware and vulnerabilities, discussions on encryption and privacy-protecting tools, updates on surveillance (corporate surveillance, street-level surveillance, and mass surveillance), device searches by law and border enforcement, tracking in devices, and general digital security tips.
EFF Related Content: Security Education
- A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that.
How to Pick Your Password Manager
Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There are free options, and even ones built into your operating system or browser. We can help...So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting...Surveillance Self-Defense: 2025 Year in Review
Our Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) guides, which provide practical advice and explainers for how to deal with government and corporate surveillance, had a big year. We published several large updates to existing guides and released three all new guides. And with frequent massive protests across the U.S., our guide to attending...What WhatsApp’s "Advanced Chat Privacy" Really Does
In April, WhatsApp launched its "Advanced Chat Privacy" feature, which, once enabled, disables using certain AI features in chats and prevents conversations from being exported. Since its launch, an inaccurate viral post has been ping-ponging around social networks, creating confusion around what exactly it does.