Privacy & Anonymity Resources
Reading, references, and communities for digital privacy and anonymity. Skewed toward primary sources and durable guides over news.
Foundational Reading
- Privacy Guides
The canonical recommendations site for privacy-respecting software. Replaced PrivacyTools.io in 2021 after a community split.
Privacy Guides community #guide - Surveillance Self-Defense
EFF's plain-language guide to threat modeling and practical privacy. The right starting point for non-technical readers.
Electronic Frontier Foundation #guide - The Tor Project — DocumentationTor Project #guide
- GrapheneOS Documentation
Hardened Android distribution. The docs are also the best technical reading on mobile threat models.
GrapheneOS Project #mobile
Audits & Transparency
- Mullvad VPN Audit ReportsCure53 / Assured AB #audit
- Proton VPN Audit ReportsSecuritum #audit
- Bitwarden Security AuditsCure53 #audit
Standards & Specs
- RFC 8446 — TLS 1.3IETF #standard
- RFC 9000 — QUICIETF #standard
- WebAuthn SpecificationW3C #standard
Communities
- r/privacyReddit #community
- r/privacytoolsIO → r/PrivacyGuidesReddit #community
- Tor Project ForumTor Project #community