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Use Signal for texts and calls, especially your activism and political conversations
Shouldn’t Briar be recommended for it’s support for communication between local wifi or better yet nearby Bluetooth range? This helps alot during activism, and if not for local network and/or Bluetooth then over the internet using Tor works which is cool.
There’s also SimpleX, since it’s Architecture is designed to be decentralized and have no user identifier (though it does reveal your IP so in most cases I would recommend a trusted VPN or better yet Tor and using SOCKS5 connection.
Free option: If you need a free option, Proton VPN is a good option. See our note below about concerns about the Proton CEO and why we still offer Proton options.
- What Note? clicking on the link doesn’t work and
- I swear if it’s because of the accidental political statement I will kneecap you too. (That’s right I’ve seen this before only to inform of them of the good apology Andy made.)
And there I thought just 2 recommendations are good but not enough since Proton wasn’t added. Until then.
Apple Maps is recommended here but not Google Maps and I would tell people to avoid Gmaps obviously. We don’t know how much we can trust them anymore. (Wrapped in a WebView and no account and less usage sure but other than that yeah)
Use a password manager with strong passwords
I’m surprised Bitwarden isn’t listed here.
Avoid using email for secure communications (but use Proton Mail if you need to)
Ok it is about the politics, Gosh darn it people:
https://redlib.freedit.eu/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/
Move on and start recommending Proton, He properly apologized.
More importantly, Why Is Tuta not recommended here? It used a better encryption than the standard PGP proton uses and it’s also quantum proof among other advantages.