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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #12 Zifra

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Zifra is a building a memory card with state-of-the-art encryption capabilities. Not only does it encrypt, but it also hides the files so that they become invisible to prying eyes. Two guiding principles in Zifra’s development are openness and user-friendliness. Verified open source code is used for crucial parts of the solution and Zifra’s technology […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #11 Z.cash

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Freedom of expression comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to send value to another person or business regardless of location or intent. Current financial privacy models are based on centralized systems which historically limit inclusion to the global market and are susceptible to compromise and potentially unlawful subpoenas, as highlighted in […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #10 Wire

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Wire is a secure, end-to-end encrypted messenger. It’s open source, works on phones, tablets and computers, supports up to 7 devices per account, and doesn’t require a phone number to register. Wire is headquartered in Switzerland with servers in the EU.Wire started with an idea that people need and deserve a privacy-focused messenger that wasn’t […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #8 pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
p≡p stands for pretty Easy privacy. The idea is to make end-to-end cryptography accessible to everyone by automatizing all steps usually taught to users at CryptoPartys, starting from OpenPGP encryption for email and then including chat communication channels like XMPP+OTR. p≡p end user software comes along with a cloudless (peer-to-peer) synchronization protocol allowing users to […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #7 Passbolt

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Passbolt is an open source password manager built for collaboration. It allows teams to securely share and store credentials – like the wifi password of their office, their organisation’s Twitter handle or the administrator password of their router. It’s 2017 and the most popular passwords are still “123456” and “azerty”. Most people still reuse passwords […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #6 Paskoocheh

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Due to heavy information controls, Iranians face significant challenges when attempting to access the Internet. In addition, popular Iranian app markets such as Cafe Bazaar are not allowed to distribute any circumvention tools, and many tool developers over-comply with sanctions by not making their tools available to Iranians. Paskoocheh is a response to these problems. […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #5 Gridsync

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
Gridsync is an open source, cross-platform desktop application and graphical user interface for Tahoe-LAFS, the Least Authority File Store.   Tahoe-LAFS’s unique design offers a number of highly-desirable features for users that require secure and reliable cloud storage: its “provider-independent” security model ensures that storage service providers cannot read or alter the data of their […]
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IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #3 Certbot

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 Comments Disabled
In a nutshell, Certbot is a tool for getting certificates from the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority (CA) and configuring your web server to encrypt users’ connections to your website with Let’s Encrypt certificates. But there’s more to it: Certbot is an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys SSL/TLS certificates for your webserver. Developed by […]
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IFF Tool Showcase: the winners!

By: Floriana On: March 04, 2016 Comments Disabled
During the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, eQualit.ie hosted a tool showcase on Thursday 3rd March. 15 awesome tools were presented, and the audience voted for their favourite projects for three different categories – “You did whaaaat?”, “Wish I’d thought of that!”, and “You get a biscuit”. We are now proud to announce the winners, […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #14: CGIProxy

By: Floriana On: March 03, 2016 Comments Disabled
First created in 1996, CGIProxy is a clientless web proxy that supports Javascript and Flash, enabling access even to the most complex websites, and can be used to anonymize connections and circumvent censorship. Over the years, CGIProxy has been downloaded over 2 million times and has been a model for several other similar web proxies. […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #15: SecurePost

By: Floriana On: March 03, 2016 Comments Disabled
SecurePost is an Android App that allows a group to share a Twitter account or Facebook page without sharing the account password. Every post published through SecurePost is cryptographically signed and can thus be verified through the app itself or with a Chrome plugin, that will clearly show if the post has been published by […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #11: StoryMaker

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #13: uProxy

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #6: OnionShare

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #1: CENO

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #5: NetAidKit

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #12: Umbrella

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #10: StingWatch

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #9: Qubes OS

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #8: Psiphon

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #4: FreedomBox

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #3: CoyIM

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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IFF Tool Showcase #7: Peerio

By: Floriana On: February 29, 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 […]
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