Before deciding your threat level, measure it: Have I Been Pwned shows whether your addresses or passwords have surfaced in known breaches and alerts you to new ones. Free, run by one of the most trusted researchers in the field. It only sees breaches that were published, so a clean result is reassurance, not proof. […]
Surveillance Self-Defense is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s free guide to protecting yourself: threat modeling exercises that start from “what am I protecting and from whom”, then step-by-step tool recommendations for journalists, activists and ordinary people. It teaches thinking rather than pushing products, which makes it evergreen. Start here before buying anything in this category.
Privacy Guides is the independent, nonprofit-maintained reference for privacy tools and threat modeling, with rigorous criteria for every recommendation and no affiliate links. When the privacy community argues, it argues using this site. Its standards are strict, so some perfectly usable tools are excluded, and the depth can overwhelm newcomers. The best directory of vetted […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
