On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Tor (pre-configured and ready to use). > 2. Pidgin-OTR. > 3. Thunderbird / IceDove with Enigmail. > 4. Firefox / IceWeasel with Cryptocat, Adblock, Disconnect Search, etc., > from ( > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/privacy-security/) > Adding my few cents to the discussion: Well, a lot has been said above by my seniors so there is nothing more left to say. First of all, for every successful product we have to analyze that to what audience we are targeting. But security and privacy is that logic which every user wants either knowingly or unknowingly. But if the user is aware from latest snooping tactics then he may look out for solutions. And, “Whenever there is new technology that offers new solutions people are bound to use it." We can write a suggestion page on which we provide alternate solutions to all major services which a layman uses for his day-to-day tasks and those solutions provides end-to-end encryption. I am writing down few tools which I encountered in my recent researches. I am using some of these tools. Will surely share my experiences soon. Skype replacement: Tox Offline messaging app: Briar Email client: MailPile Another tool (not yet ready and completed to rock on the floor) Crypto mail field is Scramble, encrypted webmail software coded by recent Stanford University computer science graduate Daniel Posch. A German company called Open-Xchange (uses PGP algo) Tool name : OX Guard Using OX Guard, you can send an encrypted email to anyone—even if they don’t use Open-Xchange Another tool: Hushmail Why can't we have a system which comes preloaded with all such encryption tools and all these automatically executes during bootup process. From a layman perspective, he doesn't want to know what is happening behind the curtain. All he is concerned about the performance of the artists and show. We have to just aware the user and provide a best possible solution and spread the word so that everyone can benefit from it. This is all what I understood so far. In case if I am wrong at some point then please correct me. Share your experiences on this. Thanks. For further info, please check out these links: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/oxguard/ http://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-scramble-to-build-encryption/ http://www.wired.com/2014/07/minilock-simple-encryption/ <http://www.wired.com/2014/07/minilock-simple-encryption/> -- *Regards,Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
