Category: Privacy Tools

Tails

Tails is a live system that aims to keep your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and avoid censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, …

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sslstrip

This tool provides a demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks that I presented at Black Hat DC 2009. It will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes for supplying a favicon which …

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BleachBit

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more.

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AbsoluteShield Internet Eraser

AbsoluteShield Internet Eraser protects your privacy by cleaning up all the tracks of your Internet and computer activities. The tool is integrated with IE and it can erase the browser cache, history, cookies, typed URLs, autocomplete list and so on in one click. You can also set the tool to automatically erase those tracks when …

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Wipe

This powerful program can remove a lot of gigabytes of garbage on your computer and recover many free disk space. In addition, it will protect your privacy on the Internet – it removes records about personal activity on PC. You will be able to delete browser history and cache, index.dat files, registry, internet cookies files, …

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Tor

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the …

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HushMail

Hushmail offers private, secure free email accounts. Email is encrypted and spam/virus scanned. Hushmail looks and feels just like any other web-mail site, but adds strong encryption to your emails to protect your secrets from prying eyes. Free Edition Features: Private email and attachments ,send PGP encrypted email to anyone. All web access uses SSL. …

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T r u e C r y p t

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). Onthe-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) …

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gpg4usb

gpg4usb is a very easy to use and small portable editor to encrypt and decrypt any text-message or -file you want. gpg4usb is free software, and it is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Download Gpg4USB

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Enigmail

Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard. Sending and receiving encrypted and digitally signed email is simple using Enigmail. When starting it for the first time, you are guided through the basic setup. We also prepared …

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Riseup [Free Secure Email Service]

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications. Email: Riseup provide secure and private email accounts, accessible via the web, shell, IMAP, or POP. Main Features: Encrypt traffic whenever possible. Don’t …

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