Tech Security for Activists Dimi (Climate Action Camp / CJA Belgium) https://we.riseup.net/psi36 http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/ Secure electronic communication Browsing the Internet Anonymously Organising Online Securing your email Hiding Stuff on your Computer Secure electronic communication Mobile or landline phone Yes Yes* No** VoIP phone Yes Yes Yes*** Instant messaging using Off- The-Record Yes Yes Yes Skype-to-Skype call or chat Yes Yes No Email No No No Facebook chat Yes No No Crabgrass chat Yes Yes Yes Signed Email No Yes No Encrypted Email No No Yes Signed, Encrypted Email No Yes Yes * A phone call can be authenticated if you recognise the voice of the caller. ** Phone calls can be intercepted. *** VoIP calls can be routed through secure networks Browsing the Internet Anonymously HTTPS (SSL, install cacert.org root certificate) Public wifi hotspot Pay-as-you-go 3G adapter (bought w/ cash) Firefox on a GNU/Linux system Linux live CD TOR (The Onion Router) VPN (virtual private network) Tunneling (SSH) Organising Online Ways people Organise Online Social Networking Sites Instant Messaging and Twitter Email and Email lists Secure tools Crabgrass, Friendika, Diaspora IRC and Identi.ca Activist mailing lists (weakest link) aktivix.org, riseup.net, psand.net Securing your email Use BCC rather than To or CC Don©t use a commercial webmail provider (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, ¼) Log of your mails / Termination of your account Activist mail hosting: Riseup, Aktivix or Inventati Securing your own email GPG encryption Hiding Stuff on your Computer Physical hiding (USB stick) Encryption (Linux, TrueCrypt) Also encrypt pagefile / swap ! Misdirection / obscuring / steganography Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/EncryptedPrivateDirectory http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/ No system is fool-proof ! Free as in Freedom Ubuntu: live cd or usb: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Browser: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ E-mail client: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/nl/thunderbird Tor Onion Router: http://www.torproject.org/ GPG encryption: http://www.gnupg.org/ Crabgrass: https://we.riseup.net/ .