Nothing2hide creates and runs training courses on digital security and publishes the teaching materials for these courses in the form of a digital protection guide, distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY SA licence.
As part of its #Jenesuispasunedata campaign, UFC que choisir offers to analyse your data to find out how big tech organisations use your data. You will also find advice on how to delete your data and exercise your rights when it comes to digital data.
It provides links to free, ethical and solidarity-based online services, suggests free tools and software, and brings together a variety of resources (music, images, etc.), as well as a web radio station and some advice in the ‘we've read, seen and tried...’ section.
This site allows you to check the strength of your password using a database of weak and common passwords, and evaluates passwords using several criteria such as the number of characters, combinations of characters and uniqueness...
Teaching situation: enter a password (be careful, not a real one that you use! You never know if a nasty hacker was behind the site and stole your password...) and evaluate its robustness. After this experiment, take some time to find good practices and advices about safe passwords.
This is a website that assesses whether your email address has already found its way onto hacking lists.
Educational situation: enter an email address and (perhaps) scare yourself by finding out whether your address is on a hacking list. Precise definitions will help you to understand exactly what information has potentially been stolen, and how it was stolen. Don't forget to advise people to change their passwords if necessary!
"Guide to digital self-defence" is an educational book on online and offline computer security. It is a collective work published by Tahin Party (6th edition 2023), published in Copyleft. You can find a version to read online, in pdf or e-reader, only in French.
Curseurs is a periodical produced in Belgium to reflect on the digital society (written in french). The journal is produced entirely using open-source software and written by a team of motivated volunteers. Its content, published under a Creative Commons licence, can be re-used freely. It can be found free of charge at a number of locations in Brussels.
A great story that tackles the issue of digital freedoms, relations of power and of production, with a touch of gender and voluntarism. Works just as well with children as with adults.
