Summary
The Digitale Selbstverteidigung hub from Digitalcourage e.V. is the leading German-language digital-security practical guide for activists and the broader public. It bundles set-up walkthroughs for passwords, two-factor authentication, secure messaging, encrypted email, F-Droid, Tails, and secure browsing under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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https://digitalcourage.de/digitale-selbstverteidigung/
Digitalcourage, a German civil-rights association founded in 1987, hosts this hub as a practical counterpart to its policy work on data protection and the “BigBrotherAwards”. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung] The hub is built around the principle that security tooling must be doable in an evening by someone who has never configured a privacy tool before, and each set-up guide is written to that bar. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung] Topics cover the canonical activist stack: passwords and password managers, two-factor authentication (with a clear recommendation against SMS), secure messaging (Signal, Threema, Matrix), email encryption (PGP/GPG and increasingly simpler protocols), F-Droid as the privacy-respecting Android app source, the Tails live operating system for high-risk scenarios, and secure browsing. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung]
The pages give German-language readers a single, dependable starting point in a field where English-language resources (EFF SSD, Tactical Tech) dominate. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung] Set-up instructions explicitly call out German service providers (mail providers, mobile carriers) and German legal context (Telekommunikationsgesetz, Datenschutz-Grundverordnung), which makes the guide easier to follow than a literal translation of an English-language original. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung] Material is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; the wiki paraphrases and links rather than reproducing extended passages. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung]
Digitalcourage itself is a separate Wiki source page describing the organisation and its wider advocacy portfolio (BigBrotherAwards, the “Digitalzwang” petition, the BigBrotherAwards jury process). [source: digitalcourage] The Digitale Selbstverteidigung hub is distinct from the organisation’s homepage: the homepage publishes campaigns and policy positions; the hub publishes the technical set-up guidance. [source: digitalcourage-digitale-selbstverteidigung]
Use it for
Setting up digital-security basics for a German-language campaign; training newcomers in a German activist group; finding CC-BY 4.0 German-language material to translate into other languages.