Tools
Recommended Encryption Tools
Here’s a PDF of recommended privacy/encryption tools that I update as new tools come out (last updated: December 2017) – https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/tools.pdf
Messaging and Communications
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Text Messaging: use Signal (iPhone/iOS version, Android version), as recommended by Snowden himself.
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Web Search
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Use <https://search.disconnect.me>
- I made this my default search engine by setting Chromium’s search query to
[https://search.disconnect.me/searchTerms/search?ses=Google&query=%s](https://search.disconnect.me/searchTerms/search?ses=Google&query=%s`) (thank you to this blog post for figuring this out).
- I made this my default search engine by setting Chromium’s search query to
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Video Conferencing: use Jitsi, as recommended by Jacob Appelbaum.
(Do not use Telegram; here’s why. And don’t use Skype, either.)
- Email
- On mobile I’m currently trying and liking Tutanota.
- EDIT: As of August 2016, I’m now regularly using ProtonMail and will soon make it my primary email provider.
- Desktop or laptop: Thunderbird + Enigmail, which is harder to set up and use than it should be :-(
- Mailpile is user-friendlier (is that a word?) but currently in beta
Web Browsing
- Anonymous Web Browsing
- On desktop/laptop: use Tor.
- On Android: use Orbot + Orfox.
- Orbot connects you to the Tor network, and Orfox is a browser that then connects to Tor through Orbot.