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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 |
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Anonymous browsing | Tor Browser | easy | Onion-routed, hardened Firefox from the Tor Project |
Anonymous chats | Briar | medium | Onion-routed anonymous messaging |
Browsing | Firefox Focus | easy | Open-source browser |
End-to-end encrypted calls and chat | Signal | easy | End-to-endencrypted phone calls, video calls, and messages; WhatsApp alternative |
Wire | easy | End-to-encrypted phone calls, video chats and messages; WhatsApp alternative | |
End-to-end encrypted chat | Conversations | medium | End-to-encrypted chat (jabber plus OTR & OMEMO) |
Client-side encrypted cloud | Nextcloud | easy | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
End-to-end encrypted email | OpenKeyChain/K9Mail | hard | encrypted e-mail |
Passwords | KeePassDX | medium | password manager |
File Sync | Syncthing | medium | Encrypted, decentralized file sync |
Operating System | LineageOS | hard | Alternative operating system based on Android |
Other | F-Droid | medium | “App-Store” for free software |
Transportr | easy | Map for Public Transport (formerly known as Liberario) | |
Maps | medium | OpenStreetMapc client with offline maps and navigation | |
Shelter | medium | Shelters apps e.g. from your contact list |
iOS
Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
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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) |
Cloud | Nextcloud | easy | self hosting and contact/calendar synchronization (“cloud”) |
Password-Management | Keepassium | medium | password management |
Firefox/Chrome
Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
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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. | |
Cookies | Cookie AutoDelete | medium | auto delete for cookies without closing the browser |
Browser Fingerprint | 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 |
Tracking | Disable WebRTC | easy | Browser add-on to disable Web-RTC based leak of IP-address |
Search Engine | https://duckduckgo.com (Tor only) | easy | meta search engine |
https://searx.me | easy | open-source search front-end, self-hosted e.g. as https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net | |
https://www.metager.de/en/ (Tor only) | easy | meta search engine | |
Video Chat | meet.jit.si | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms |
talky.io | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms | |
Spreed.me | easy | WebRTC meeting rooms | |
Cross Site Scripting | RequestPolicy | hard | XSS prevention |
Windows
Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
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Browsing | Firefox | easy | open-source browser |
Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
Chat | 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”) |
Thunderbird+Enigmail | hard | email encryption: client (Thunderbird) & Enigmail (encryption) | |
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 |
File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
Linux
Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
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Browsing | Firefox | easy | open-source browser |
Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
Chat | 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+Enigmail | hard | by installing the enigmail package Thunderbird will be installed, too; seahorse-nautilus integrates gpg commands into the Nautilus file explorer |
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kmail+kleopatra | hard | parts of the KDE desktop | |
Full Disk / File Encryption | VeraCrypt | medium | continuation of TrueCrypt |
LUKS+dmcrypt | hard | package name: cryptsetup |
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File Sharing | OnionShare | easy | secure and anonymous file sharing (package name: onionshare ) |
Metadata | Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit | easy | remove metadata from photos, text files, etc; package name:mat |
Passwords | KeepassXC | easy | |
File Sync | Syncthing | medium | encrypted, decentralized file sync |
MacOSX
Topic | Link | Difficulty | Description |
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Browsing | Firefox | easy | open-source browser |
Anonymous Browsing | Tor Browser | easy | anonymous browsing |
Chat | 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”) |
Thunderbird+Enigmail | hard | email encryption: client (Thunderbird) & Enigmail (encryption) | |
gpgtools+Mail.app | hard | email encryption with Mail | |
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 |