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Tools
Difficulty Levels
- easy / no prior knowledge necessary
- medium / easy to learn
- hard / complex knowledge necessary
Android
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Browsing | OrBot + OrFox | easy | Proxy With Tor/Private Web Browser |
| Phone Calls, Chat | Signal | easy | encrypted phone calls, video calls, and messages; WhatsApp alternative |
| Wire | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Chat | Conversations | medium | encrypted chat (jabber plus OTR & OMEMO) |
| OpenKeyChain/K9Mail | hard | encrypted e-mail | |
| Passwords | KeePassDroid | medium | password manager |
| Other | Wi-Fi Privacy Police | easy | prevent leaking which WiFis you've been logged into before |
| F-Droid | medium | “App-Store” for free software | |
| Transportr | easy | Map for Public Transport (formerly known as Liberario) | |
| OSMAnd | medium | OpenStreetMap with offline maps and navigation | |
| Operating System | https://lineageos.org/ | hard | alternative operating system based on Android |
| File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
| Cloud | Nextcloud | easy | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
iOS
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Browsing | Onion Browser | easy | Proxy With Tor/Private Web Browser |
| Phone Calls, Chat | Signal | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats, and messages; WhatsApp alternative |
| Wire | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Chat | ChatSecure | medium | encrypted chat (with jabber plus OTR & OMEMO) |
| Password-Management | MiniKeepass | medium | password management |
| Cloud | Nextcloud | easy | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
Firefox/Chrome
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adblocker | uBlock Origin | easy | more than a multiple ad blocker |
| Privacy Badger | easy | self learning tracking blocker | |
| NoScript | hard | manage javascript, flash, anti-xss, java, anti-clickjacking | |
| uMatrix | hard | blocks scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc. | |
| Cookie Management | Cookie AutoDelete | medium | auto delete for cookies without closing the browser |
| FingerprintBlocker | CanvasBlocker | easy | Browser Add-on to change JS-API for modifying canvas to prevent Canvas-Fingerprinting |
| HTTPS | HTTPS Everywhere | easy | switch to HTTPS version of websites automatically |
| CertificatePatrol | medium | shows updates of SSL certificates | |
| Search Engine | https://duckduckgo.com (Tor only) | easy | search engine respecting your privacy |
| https://searx.me | easy | ||
| https://startpage.com/ | easy | ||
| https://www.metager.de/en/ (Tor only) | easy | meta search engine | |
| Video Chat | talky.io | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms |
| meet.jit.si | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms | |
| Spreed.me | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms | |
| Cross Site Scripting | RequestPolicy | hard | XSS prevention |
Windows
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
| Chat | CoyIM | medium | instant messaging with Jabber |
| Signal | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats, and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Wire | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Cloud | Nextcloud | hard | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
| gpg4win+Thunderbird+Enigmail | hard | email encryption: client (Thunderbird) & Enigmail (encryption) | |
| Thunderbird+TorBirdy | medium | Email through Tor | |
| File Sharing | OnionShare | easy | secure and anonymous file sharing |
| File Encryption | VeraCrypt | medium | continuation of TrueCrypt |
| Metadata | MetaData Stripper | easy | remove metadata from photos |
| Passwords | KeePassXC | easy | password manager |
| Password Safe | easy | password manager | |
| File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
Linux
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
| Chat | CoyIM | medium | instant messaging with Jabber |
| Signal | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats, and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Wire | easy | Encrypted chats with other computers and with mobile phones. Video chats possible. | |
| Cloud | Nextcloud | hard | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
| Thunderbird+TorBirdy | medium | Email through Tor | |
| gpg+Thunderbird+Enigmail | hard | gpg: already installed, during installation of package enigmail Thunderbird is installed as well; seahorse-nautilus integrates gpg commands into the Nautilus file explorer |
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| kmail+kleopatra | hard | gpg: already installed, parts of the KDE desktop | |
| File Encryption | VeraCrypt | medium | continuation of TrueCrypt |
| File Sharing | OnionShare | easy | secure and anonymous file sharing (package name: onionshare) |
| Harddrive Encryption | ecryptfs during installation | easy | “encrypt home directory” |
| LUKS+dmcrypt | hard | package name: cryptsetup |
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| Metadata | Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit | easy | remove metadata from photos, text files, etc; package name:mat |
| Passwords | KeepassX | easy | compilation recipe for keepassx |
| File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
MacOSX
| Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
| Chat | CoyIM | medium | instant messaging with Jabber |
| Signal | easy | encrypted phone calls, video chats, and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
| Cloud | Nextcloud | easy | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
| gpgtools+Thunderbird+Enigmail | hard | email encryption: client (Thunderbird) & Enigmail (encryption) | |
| gpgtools+Mail.app | hard | email encryption with Mail | |
| Thunderbird+Tor Browser Bundle+TorBirdy | medium | Email through Tor | |
| File Encryption | VeraCrypt (requires FUSE for MacOS) | medium | continuation of TrueCrypt |
| File Sharing | OnionShare | easy | secure and anonymous file sharing |
| Metadata | MetaData Stripper | easy | remove metadata from photos |
| Passwords | KeePassXC | easy | password manager |
| File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
Fingerprints of Signing Keys
This section is only relevant if you want to use PGP to verify downloads. This involves what's called signatures and the Torproject has an explanation of How to verify signatures.
Please note that this is a wiki page that can be edited by anyone. This list has been published here for reference but if possible, we recommend that you check the own websites of each project when looking for fingerprints.
*EDIT* The list has been removed for now but will be back soon (in another location where not everyone can edit it and also with a PGP signature of it's own). Once that's done we'll link to it.