Online Safety for Researchers

This tutorial is a short introduction to digital safety for researchers. All of the material is available under open licenses, and contributions through our GitHub repository are welcome. All contributors are required to respect our Code of Conduct.

This tutorial is still being outlined. Most sections will have additional examples (and much more explanation) before learners encounter it. Suggestions and help are greatly appreciated.

Learner Persona

FIXME

Lessons

Introduction
Threat Models
Personal Safety
Data Safety
Application Safety
Conclusion

Appendices

License
Code of Conduct
Contributing
Bibliography
Glossary

Acknowledgments

Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.

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