Front Line acknowledges financial support from Irish Aid which has made this project possible. Responsibility for the contents of the manual rests solely with the author and Front Line.

Acknowledgements
Front Line and Dmitri Vitaliev would like to thank the following people and organisations for the invaluable help in researching and writing this book:

• Reporters sans frontières
  
• Privacy International
  
• The OpenNet Initiative
  
• Wikipedia
  
• Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
  
• International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
  
• The Association for Progressive Communications
  
• Peace Brigades International
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
• Cambridge Security Programme
  
• Privaterra
  

Rosemary Warner
Steven Murdoch
Ross Anderson
Elijah Zarwan
Julian Wolfson
Bert-Jaap Koops
Wojtek Bogusz
Mary Lawlor
Andrew Anderson

...and numerous human rights defenders from countries around the world including Zimbabwe, Guatemala, China, Cuba, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus, Mexico etc. for answering questions, providing testimonials and evidence that resulted in the idea behind this book and its contents.