Totem Project | How the Internet Works
May 14, 2021 | Know What You Have
Totem is an online platform that offers interactive courses to learn how to increase digital security and privacy. The optimal user experience is currently on your desktop computer. The aim is to support journalists, human rights defenders and activists use privacy tools and tactics more effectively in their work.
What will you learn? You should walk away from this course knowing:
- How the Internet works, i.e. how your emails, messages, passwords, and so on are sent across the Internet
- Who has access to what data along the way
- What key terms like encryption, HTTP, HTTPS and metadata mean, and why these things matter
- What you can do to better control your privacy and make your Internet browsing and communication more secure
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