Personally, I'd recommend staying away from any kind of hosting service
- stick with a peer-to-peer system designed for privacy.
One, really simple notion would be to simply use encrypted email,
perhaps over a list server. It's a pain, but straightforward. It does,
however expose group membership, in the form of email addresses. (One
important issue, for group organizers to think about, is the distinction
between private and anonymous - which has both social and technical
implications).
One obvious approach is to use freenet (https://freenetproject.org/) -
it will require that each participant download and install some software
on their laptops - but it's not all that hard. There are a variety of
similar protocol/software stacks also designed for secure communication
- Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, FastTrack, eDonkey, Gnunet.
A couple of good starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P and
http://www.planetpeer.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
There are some newer approaches, based on blockchain technologies - like
the twister micro-blogging platform - http://twister.net.co (article
about twister and a few similar projects:
http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/24759/making-NSA-proof-social-networking-mainstream)
As a side note - for a while, the State Department was funding
development of such applications - specifically to support revolutionary
movements (think Arab Spring).
Miles Fidelman
On 7/11/16 6:36 AM, casper wrote:
Check out:
https://we.riseup.net or
https://www.systemli.org/en/service/hosting.html
best regards
casper
On 11.07.2016 11:29, Jan Weisensee wrote:
Hello Lina,
I'm not sure what "high security levels" means, but given that this
group wants to discuss extremely personal and sensitive topics (namely
sexual assault / rape), choosing the services of a data company such as
Google, whose business model it is to access, analyse and sell private
data, doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
In my view:
- If the group is small (<10), I would use Signal or Threema.
- If not but there's some tech knowledge in the group, I'd get a server
at some place safe, set up an SSL certificate and install Mattermost on
that server.
- Otherwise, something similar to Mattermost is hosted by SpiderOak.
They call it "Semaphor", and it has full end-to-end encryption. Haven't
tried it myself but looks like a good solution for non-techy people.
Hope this helps.
Jan
On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 01:20 +0000, Steve Weis wrote:
I'd use Google Apps for Nonprofits:
http://www.google.com/nonprofits/
It's simple, familiar, and the security is good enough for enterprise
businesses.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 4:56 PM Lina Srivastava
<l...@linasrivastava.com <mailto:l...@linasrivastava.com>> wrote:
Hello all,
A new support group for survivors of campus sexual assault is looking
for a secure online communications platform. The group is not one of
my clients, nor am I a member of or advisor to the group -- I am
passing this request along as a favor -- so I have relatively little
information about membership numbers, etc. I do believe everyone who
is in the group is located in the U.S. or Canada. And they are
looking for high security levels, giving survivors the ability to
seek support from other members and to collectively organize for
changes to policy and legislation on rape and assault. They are
hoping to have password-protected login, private messaging, group
forums, file share, all encrypted.
Do any of you have advice for an existing platform that would provide
this that is relatively affordable?
Thanks in advance,
Lina
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