Algorithms Exposed.
Privacy Defended.

The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) collaborated with CUP and designer Aishwarya Srivastava to create Unfriend the NYPD, a booklet for youth and young adults with lower income in NYC that explains how the police can surveil their phones through messenger apps, social media, and geofences. It also explains the concept of a risk profile, or how likely a person is to be surveilled by police. With this information, and tips throughout for how to fight back, BIPOC youth and young adults can better understand how to protect themselves, their friends, and their family from police surveillance.

VirusTotal inspects items with over 70 antivirus scanners and URL/domain blocklisting services, in addition to a myriad of tools to extract signals from the studied content. Any user can select a file from their computer using their browser and send it to VirusTotal.

Collection of free tools from CISA. This is a sort I've made focused on tools external to CISA, and tools that are of the most interest to me.

Is this site or online store a scam or safe? Are the reviews real or fake? That is the question ScamAdviser tries to answer for 2.5 million visitors every month. ScamAdviser uses an algorithm to determine if the website is legit with real reviews or a phishing website, selling fake products. Our goal: help consumers make the right choices online.

urlscan.io is a free service to scan and analyse websites. When a URL is submitted to urlscan.io, an automated process will browse to the URL like a regular user and record the activity that this page navigation creates. This includes the domains and IPs contacted, the resources (JavaScript, CSS, etc) requested from those domains, as well as additional information about the page itself. urlscan.io will take a screenshot of the page, record the DOM content, JavaScript global variables, cookies created by the page, and a myriad of other observations. If the site is targeting the users one of the more than 900 brands tracked by urlscan.io, it will be highlighted as potentially malicious in the scan results.