Resources to Support Users in Russia and Ukraine
Localized Resources
Circumventing Censorship for Russian Users (Localization Lab)
Digital Security Assessment and List of Localized Tools in Ukrainian (Localization Lab)
Circumvention Tools
Tor Project
Tor blocked in Russia: how to circumvent censorship (Tor Project Forum)
Overview of Tor blocking in Russia (Roskomsvoboda)
User support in Russian on Telegram
Dynamic bridges are being used in Russia and are working well.
Tor Project’s Support Portal has almost fully been localized into Russian
Tor Project lawyers in Russia have pointed out how the sanctions are also creating censorship and actually isolating the internet inside of Russia for Russian users.
On March 5 this year, one of the largest backbone telecom operators, Cogent, disabled access to its equipment for Russian users.
Media outlets / human rights organizations / activists can create their own censorship-proof Android apps for free using AppMaker. If media outlets want to make their existing apps censorship-proof, GreatFire along with partner Guardian Project can help them to integrate their strategy.
Internet users in Ukraine, Russia, China, anywhere can access any site using FreeBrowser Android app, available on the FreeBrowser website, Github and the Google Play Store.
Twitter onion site now for UA and RU users: https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/
(Use Tor Browser to access. It doesn't work with a regular browser)
List of available onion sites from Alec Muffet on github: Real-World-Onion-Sites
Delta Chat is currently improving "burner account" support and is working together with a professional e-mail provider to offer high-quality services, and are also helping folks in RU and UA and elsewhere to set up reliable communications. If anyone has any questions about Delta Chat they can contact the team at delta@merlinux.eu with any questions.
Like Butter: A flavor of F-Droid focused on offline distribution. Apps and digital security guides can be distributed from Android phones. And raspberry pis ‘butter boxes’.
Digital Security
Digital security resources for human rights defenders in Ukraine (UA)
Cybersecurity Resources (Roskomsvoboda)
Reports on internet blockages
IODA has been tracking internet outages. You can view outages at region and AS level on the dashboard ioda.live We also tweet outages.
IODA investigation on Active Probing (blue line)
Help to interpret the measurements on the dashboard. Email ioda-info@cc.gatech.edu
Protesting Safely
Attending a Protest (Surveillance Self-Defense)
Other resources
Quick Actionable Digital Security Tips (English) [PDF]
Quick Actionable Digital Security Tips (Ukrainian) [PDF]
Quick Actionable Digital Security Tips (Russian) [PDF]