Privacy and IT security tools

Privacy

Chat Apps

Useful tools to communicate in privacy

• Overview of tools which preserve privacy

• Jitsi - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing

  • Not very performant.
  • My MacBook gets loud
• Signal

Tracking

See who is tracking you

• Trackography - Find out who is tracking you when you are reading your favourite news online.
• Is your browser safe against tracking? - Check it with the online tool panopticlick

Secure browsers

• TOR
• Cliqz
• Brave

• Waterfox

  No Telemetry, Limited Data Collection etc.

• How to Install TOR on Android and iOS Devices

Decentralized YouTube Alternatives

• LBRY
• Odysee

Add blocking

• Pi Hole - Network-wide Ad Blocking

VPNs

VPNs are good, but they also bare a risk. All your internet traffic is routed through them. So you really have to trust them.

• Most VPNs can leak personal data despite claims to the contrary
• More secure: Set up your own VPN Server with Algo VPN - e.g. use Digital Ocean Server.

Operating Systems

Tails

• Tails is a Live-Operating system - It can boot on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card you control.
• Install the Tails operating system on a USB-thumb-drive

File Exchange

• Send files up to 1GB with Firefox Send
• Write and share files with Privatebin

Search

• Privacy-respecting metasearch engine searx

Passwords

• KeeWeb: Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
• PassBolt: The password manager your team was waiting for. Free, open source, self-hosted, extensible, OpenPGP based.
• TeamPass is a Passwords Manager dedicated for managing passwords in a collaborative way by sharing them among team members.

Storage

• openmediavault: Next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux

Phishing

Simulate phishing attack to train employees to be more sensitive towards such messages.

Tools:

• MailHog

• Gophish

  • Sending Profiles