Email Self-Defens
Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free
speech risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance
self-defense skill: email encryption. Once you've finished, you'll be
able to send and receive emails that are scrambed to make sure a
surveillance agent or thief intercepting your email can't read them. All
you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account,
and about forty minutes.
Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protectthe privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult
for bulk surveillance systems. If you do have something important to
hide, you're in good company; these are the same tools that
whistleblowers use to protect their identities while shining light on
human rights abuses, corruption and other crimes.
