Introduction: Section Introduction

The first few pages of this site are dedicated to explaining basic concepts that will come up over and over again throughout this site. The topics are:

• Why Do Privacy & Security Matter?
• What is Threat Modeling?
• Security, Privacy, & Anonymity
• How Mass Surveillance Works
• What is Encryption?
• What is Metadata and Why Does it Matter?
• What is Open Source and Why Does it Matter?
• How Getting Hacked Really Works
• The "Five Eyes" and Service Jurisdictions

If you feel like you sufficiently understand these topics, you can feel free to skip this section, or you can come back to the pages as you need.