• Open Source Resources & Info
• Getting started with OSS (without messing with your hard-drive)
• Is Microsoft really that bad?
• Microsoft Security - An Oxymoron
• Computer Security, Anonymity and Privacy
• Digital Rights
• Security
• Passwords Passphrases
• Crypto
• Digital Signatures
• Social Engineering
• News and Further Info
• Further Reading

Open Source Resources & Info

• Why Punks Should Support Open Source
• Free speech, free beer and free software
• The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
• Guitar maker plays a Linux tune

Getting started with OSS (without messing with your hard-drive)

• Ubuntu
• Security Tools Distribution
• FreeSBIE

Is Microsoft really that bad?

• Microsoft in human rights row
• KMFMS - Kein Mitleid Für MicroSoft
• Living Without Microsoft
• I Told You So
• TCPA FAQ
• Microsoft to schools: Give us your lunch money!
• Microsoft charity dispute draws attention
• The Microsoft Eradication Society
• Reasons To Avoid Microsoft
• Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly [PDF]

• Windows 'back door' security alert
• How NSA access was built into Windows
• Huge Hotmail security flaw reported
• Microsoft ad pulled by ASA
• Microsoft RC4 Flaw

Computer Security, Anonymity and Privacy

• Computer & Internet Security, Privacy, Anonymity and more...
• Association for Progressive Communications: Participating With Safety
• GPG: the Best Free Crypto You Aren't Using, Part 1
• GPG: the Best Free Crypto You Aren't Using, Part 2
• Internet Security and Privacy for Activists and Citizens
• riseup.net - Security
• Ready to toss that old PC? Read this first
• I just bought your hard drive

Digital Rights

• WTO + WIPO = DMCA?
• Stop Policeware - FIGHT THE CBDTPA

Security

• Crypto
  • Web Communication: Cryptography and Network Security
  • An Introduction to Cryptography [PDF]
  • Cryptography Wikipedia
  • Why I Wrote PGP
  • Cryptography, Scientific Freedom, and Human Rights
  • Privaterra - Securing Human Rights
  • Non-Technical PGP FAQ
  • GnuPG FAQ
  • PGP Example
  • PGP-Basics Mailing List
  • Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid
  • Why Cryptosystems Fail
  • Practical Attacks on PGP
  • The Feasibility of Breaking PGP - The PGP attack FAQ
  • Windows Privacy Tools
  • Crypto Law Survey
  • National Cryptologic Museum (NSA)
• Digital Signatures
  • What is a digital signature?
  • An introduction to Digital Signatures
  • Digital signature Wikipedia
  • Why Digital Signatures Are Not Signatures
• Passwords Passphrases
  • The Center for Password Sanity
  • Good and Bad Passwords How-To
  • Diceware
  • Shocking Nonsense
  • One-Time Password Authentication
  • Not So Secret Passwords
  • Self Incrimination and Cryptographic Keys
  • Passwords revealed by sweet deal
  • Password Generator

Social Engineering

• Social Engineering With A Vengeance
• Social Engineering 101
• social-engineering
• Social Engineering: You Have Been A Victim
• How to sell your self for a song

News and Further Info

• The Register
• 2600
• Phrack
• Linux Security
• Stupid Security
• Schneier on Security
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Center for Democracy and Technology

Further Reading

• Open Source Software
  • Microsoft Office-Linux Interoperability Experiment
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar

• Security
  • Security, Privacy, & Anonymity for Autonomy
  • The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
  • The Art of Intrusion : The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders, and Deceivers
  • Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World

• Crypto
  • Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition
  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
  • The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
  • The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
  • Elementary Cryptanalysis : A Mathematical Approach
  • Cryptanalysis a Study of Ciphers and Their Solutions