... links
There are already a lot of great platforms, tools and tutorials out there. In this section we list some of the tools and services that we use, which is why we can recommend all of them. Some can be self-hosted on a Virtual Private Server. If you can, you should definitely do that too...
However, maybe even more important than knowing these tools is to stay informed, which is why we first would like to draw your attention to a couple of organisations that fight for our digital freedom online:
... news: digital rights & civil liberties
- Privacy International: https://www.privacyinternational.org/
- Access Now: https://www.accessnow.org/
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/
- The Citzen Lab: https://citizenlab.ca/
- European Digital Rights (EDRi): https://edri.org/
... domain name services & hosting provider (VPS)
- 1984: https://1984.hosting/
- njal.la: https://njal.la/
... social media & online publishing
- Ghost (self-hosted): https://ghost.org/docs/install/
- Mastodon (self-hosted): https://mastodon.social/about
- GitHub: https://github.com/
... cloud services: cross-platform, open-source & self-hosted
- Nextcloud (self-hosted): https://nextcloud.com/
- Turtl (self-hosted): https://turtlapp.com/
... browser, search engine, Tor & VPN: better privacy
- Mozilla Firefox (tweaked): https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/
- Tor Project (we run relays too): https://www.torproject.org/
- Tails: https://tails.boum.org/
- Whonix: https://www.whonix.org/
- WireGuard VPN (self-hosted): https://www.wireguard.com/
- SearX (self-hosted): https://searx.space/
- ProtonMail: https://proton.me/mail
... router firmware
- OpenWrt (i.e. on Turris Omnia): https://openwrt.org/
... ad-block, firewall & intrusion detection
- Pi-Hole (self-hosted): https://pi-hole.net/
- Lulu (MacOS): https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html
- KnockKnock (MacOS): https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html
- BlockBlock (MacOS): https://objective-see.org/products/blockblock.html
... encryption & password manager
- KeePass XC: https://keepassxc.org/
- Picocrypt: https://github.com/HACKERALERT/Picocrypt
- VeraCrypt: https://veracrypt.fr/
- NitroKey: https://www.nitrokey.com/
... messenger: anonymous, end-to-end encrypted
- Element Matrix (self-hosted): https://element.io/
- Briar: https://briarproject.org/
- Profanity XMPP: https://profanity-im.github.io/
... mobile OS: free from Google - Android alternatives
- GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/
- LineageOS: https://www.lineageos.org/
... crypto & web3
- Monero (XMR): https://www.getmonero.org/
- Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai/
... online tools
- ';--have i been pwned?: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
- CoverYourTracks: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
- LocateJS: https://locatejs.com/
- BrowserLeaks: https://browserleaks.com/
- DNS leak test: https://dnsleaktest.com/
... special mention: privacy tools & guides
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
- Prism Break: https://prism-break.org/en/
- PrivacyTools.io: https://www.privacytools.io/
- RiseUp: https://riseup.net/
- Surveillance Self-Defense Guides: https://ssd.eff.org/