session 11 - encryption_anonymity_safety_whistleblowing.md

Introduction

Tools: plug-ins, browsers, operating systems, and else

• plug-ins
  • privacy badger; also test on panopticlick, both from the nice people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation; blacklight is another, more recent service for testing the reliability of websites.
  • https everywhere
  • adblockers
  • duckduckgo for chrome
• browsers / search engines
  • Brave-browser:
    • "Browse 3x faster than Chrome"
  • duckduckgo
  • the gold standard: Tor
• operating systems
  • Qubes OS
  • Kali OS
  • Copperhead OS
  • Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System
• messenger services
  • Signal
  • Silence, a Signal fork
• secure cloud storage
  • IDrive
  • SpiderOak