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IFF Tool Showcase #2: Code of Conduct builder

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Usually, those who are most hurt by censorship, surveillance and a lack of Internet freedom are the most marginalised members of society; people who have been too often excluded from the world of tech, policy and other important areas which impact Internet freedom and human rights. To face this problem, many groups have taken inspiration […]

IFF Tool Showcase #11: StoryMaker

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

StoryMaker is an open source app helping anyone learn to make great multimedia stories and safely produce and publish them with their mobile device, in a privacy-preserving fashion that ensures they can share and publish their stories where they wish, despite the threat of censorship. The final release out of beta comes with the inclusion […]

IFF Tool Showcase #13: uProxy

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

uProxy is an open source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that lets users share their route to the Internet with each other. uProxy has been made for people in two situations: those who need to get safe and unrestricted access to the Internet and those who have an unrestricted connection that they would like […]

IFF Tool Showcase #6: OnionShare

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

OnionShare is a desktop application to share files anonymously and securely using the Tor network. It’s incredibly simple and uses the anonymity-protecting and firewall-slicing properties of hidden services. It supports a diversity of use cases such as sending a screenshot to a friend, or leaking classified documents to a journalist. As long as both the […]

IFF Tool Showcase #1: CENO

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

CENO (Censorship.NO!) is an innovative approach to censorship circumvention, based on P2P storage networks, and in particular on Freenet. CENO maintains strong privacy and anonymity features as well as offering users plausible deniability in an emergency situation. CENO is built in advance of aggressive Internet filtering and the establishment of national intranets to fence off […]

IFF Tool Showcase #5: NetAidKit

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

The NetAidKit is a pocket size, USB powered router that connects everything to everything, designed specifically for non-technical users. The easy to use web interface will allow you to connect the NetAidKit to a wireless or wired network and share that connection with your other devices, such as a phone, laptop or tablet. Once the […]

IFF Tool Showcase: the projects

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 Blog, IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

During the Internet Freedom Festival, which will take place in Valencia, Spain, from the 1st to the 6th March 2016, eQualit.ie will host a tool showcase and award ceremony on Thursday 3rd March, starting from 7 pm. During the showcase, 15 tools will be introduced with a short presentation to the entire room and then […]

IFF Tool Showcase #12: Umbrella

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Umbrella is a free and open source Android app to help journalists and activists manage their security on the move. Subdivided in several sections addressing not only digital and physical, but also psycho-social and operational security issues, Umbrella offers simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering […]

IFF Tool Showcase #10: StingWatch

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

An IMSI-catcher is a telephony eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking movement of mobile phone users. Essentially a “fake” mobile tower acting between the target mobile phone and the service provider’s real towers, it is considered a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Wikipedia article Employed, among others, by the US federal government and […]

IFF Tool Showcase #9: Qubes OS

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Qubes OS is a free and open source security-oriented operating system that implements security by compartmentalization. Its architecture is built to enable a user to define different security environments on her computer and visually manage their interaction with each other. While the most common operating systems like Windows, Mac or Linux are “monolithic”, which means […]

IFF Tool Showcase #8: Psiphon

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Psiphon is a free censorship circumvention tool. Its robust network is made of more than thousand active servers, which can provide you with quick access to any blocked content on the Internet. Psiphon is an open source tool that does not require installation and automatically selects the best performance settings. More than 15 million people […]

IFF Tool Showcase #4: FreedomBox

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

FreedomBox is a personal server that protects your privacy. It is a free software stack, a subset of the Debian universal operating system, that can be installed in many flavors of inexpensive and power-efficient hardware. FreedomBox runs in a physical computer and can route your traffic. It can sit between various devices at home such […]

IFF Tool Showcase #3: CoyIM

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Despite the fact that one of the most efficient ways of encrypting communications is OTR with Jabber/XMPP, the clients that support these protocols are either flawed from a security point of view or excessively hard to use. This is the reason why CoyIM is being developed. Based on Adam Langley’s xmpp-client, and written in the […]

IFF Tool Showcase #7: Peerio

By: Floriana On: February 29, 2016 IFF Showcase 2016 Comments Disabled

Until recently, if someone wanted to be sure that their communications could only be read by themselves and their addressees, they had to face the steep learning curve required by encryption tools like GPG or OTR. As efficient as they are in enabling an end-to-end encrypted communication, these tools are problematic for anyone who needs […]