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

• Text Messaging: use Signal (iPhone/iOS version, Android version), as recommended by Snowden himself.

• Web Search

• 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).

• 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.

Other Lists of Recommended Tools

• https://prism-break.org/en/

• https://www.cryptoparty.in/learn/tools

• https://ssd.eff.org/en/index

• https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/tools.pdf