Passwords are inherently insecure, but don't use the same password for more than one place. 

Remembering a ton of passwords is a hassle but luckily for us there are tons of password managers.

Signal is a popular messaging service that got a perfect score from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

You can do all the things you would normally do through text messages, like have group messages and send photos and videos, except that everything’s encrypted. 

Tor stands for “The Onion Router” which is a reference to its use of many onion-like layers to mask network activity. It’s free, open source, and reasonably easy to use. 

Duckduckgo doesn’t track you, but it does have a shortcut to get Encrypted Google searches when you need them. You just need to Prefix your search with !Google. 

Windows and MacOS have built-in full-disk encryption, but you need to turn it on. 

Even if you use 'incognito mode' the following parties will still be able to snoop in on your network activity:

• Internet service providers
• System administrators in charge of the network at your workplace or wherever online
• The maker of your broswer