Articles tagged: privacy

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   Shields Up: Using Signal Without Giving Your Phone Number

   By Martin Shelton

   Posted on September 18, 2017

   Encrypted messaging apps like Signal, as well as WhatsApp and Viber, use your phone number as your main username. This means that if I want to chat with someone on these apps, I have to give them my phone number. But we may have many reasons—both practical and principled—not to share our number with someone. These digits are personal.

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   Digital Self-Defense for Journalists: An Introduction

   By Martin Shelton

   Posted on July 14, 2016

   Digital self-defense is becoming an important part of the journalistic toolkit. Beyond risks to everyone’s digital lives—webcam hacking, email breaches, identity theft—people who work in newsrooms have even more at stake. Newsrooms are some of the biggest targets in the world for state-sponsored digital attacks, as well as more routine threats. Here’s how to build stronger roadblocks, making it harder for others to access our data without consent.