Remote Communication - LibrePlanet This list is work in progress. We have not audited the software listed on this page for security or privacy concerns beyond what developers of the software, and potentially other sites tell us about it. We have done some initial research into software licenses. Entries with Free Software Directory links have been thoroughly reviewed from a licensing perspective. This page is a shared resource, and we encourage others to add to it, so some of the entries here may be added by members of the community. About — ChatSecure ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iPhone that supports OMEMO encryption and OTR encryption over XMPP. Unfortunately ChatSecure Android is no longer available (more info). ChatSecure is available on the Apple App Store for free.
I created a reddit-like site that bridges I2P, Tor and Yggdrasil to allow users to interact with one another without leaving their network of choice. (Also available on the clearnet) : i2p I hope that it's okay that I post this here. So, I wanted a reddit-like site that was: Lightweight / fastPrivacy focusedNot heavy on censorshipAnd integrated with "alternative internets" (Tor, I2P, Yggdrasil for now) Download Tor Want Tor to really work? You need to change some of your habits, as some things won't work exactly as you are used to. Please read the full list of warnings for details. Tor Browser for Windows (64 bit)
The New Oil You’re probably already aware that cell phones don’t communicate directly with other cell phones, they communicate with cell towers who make a mesh network with other cell towers to bounce your call, text, or other data from tower to tower until it reaches its destination. But you may not know that the internet works in a similar fashion. In this section, I want to explain how modern digital communication works to help you understand how some of the tools and techniques in later sections protect your communications.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity Version 0.1.1 (draft), December 2020 (work in progress, some parts are incomplete) by AnonymousPlanet This guide is open-source, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (cc-by-4.0). Feel free to submit issues/recommendations/ideas using Github Issues at: PDF version of this guide at: Making a social media account with a pseudonym or artist/brand name is easy. And it’s enough is most use cases to protect your identity as the next George Orwell.
Installing the new Dendrite Matrix Homeserver on Debian Buster This post contains my personal notes on how to set up Dendrite, Matrix.org’s second-generation homeserver written in Go. These notes are not yet complete, but do contain the basics to get things going. Please note that Dendrite is in early beta and not yet recommended for use in production environments. For more information, refer to the README.md on Github and this blogpost on Matrix.org. For more information on Dendrite, have a look at the official Dendrite documentation.
Introduction of the privacy centric matrix bot. — one January 8, 2021 Parses the whole post / article (text), acting as a proxy, providing a preview (some posts might not load because bot handles all the requests over Tor). Converts YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram links to respective privacy focused front-ends. Converts (several) clearnet site links to respective onion links (includes news media / publication / online services sites). The bot will place custom m.reaction (DM preview / DM alternative) on link containing message which will trigger (if clicked) the bot to send converted alternative links and requested articles (will include media elements soon) in a separate room. This achieves utmost efficiency and opens up potentials for more new features.
Piloting SecureDrop Workstation for Qubes OS - SecureDrop In March, Freedom of the Press Foundation will begin to pilot SecureDrop Workstation for Qubes OS with select news organizations. The goal of the project is to make the SecureDrop experience more intuitive, and to decrease the time-on-task for journalists, without compromising security. With SecureDrop Workstation, journalists can use a single integrated computer to review messages and documents submitted by sources via SecureDrop, and to reply to them. We’re deeply grateful to Freedom of the Press Foundation’s friends and supporters for making this project possible, including the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards and our individual donors. Standing on Our Own Two Feet When a new Certificate Authority (CA) comes on the scene, it faces a conundrum: In order to be useful to people, it needs its root certificate to be trusted by a wide variety of operating systems (OSes) and browsers. However, it can take years for the OSes and browsers to accept the new root certificate, and even longer for people to upgrade their devices to the newer versions that include that change. The common solution: a new CA will often ask an existing, trusted CA for a cross-signature, to quickly get it into being trusted by lots of devices. Five years ago, when Let’s Encrypt launched, that’s exactly what we did.