The Mobile Security Survival Guide for Journalists helps users to better understand the risks inherent in the use of mobile technology. It also discusses some tactics users can use to protect them-self. The guide covers both local journalists and those on assignment in another country. It is important for any journalists or person engaged in sensitive work to understand that mobile communications are inherently insecure and expose users to risks that are not easy to detect or overcome. This guide is designed to help users to navigate these challenges.
Guide outline the risks and offer tips to help mitigate them. The primary goal is to help users to make better decisions about using their mobile phone while on assignment for both users professional and personal communication.
It should be noted that this guide does not guarantee user safety. Rather, it is a foundational resource for user to understand and minimize risks of mobile communication in the field.
The Mobile Security Survival Guide is written with the workflow of a journalist in mind:
- Mobile Network Awareness: The Basics — What does users mobile use to say about them?
- Preparing for Assignment — Assess user digital risks and prepare their phone.
- Reporting/In the Field — Talking to sources and conducting interviews; checking in with users newsroom, user phone in emergency situations.
- Filing the Story – Sending updates, news bursts, or multimedia content from the field.
- BONUS! Social Media – Safer use of social media to follow news, connect with sources, share breaking stories and promote users work.
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