Collection:Privacy pack
All of the programs listed below run on GNU/Linux and most also work with Windows and Mac as well. The Free Software Foundation in no way endorses or encourages illegal activities.
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Web browser
| IceCat | Suitable replacement for Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and others. Comes with privacy features turned on, and LibreJS (and more) for disabling non-free JavaScript code, FaceBook "like" buttons and other things.
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| Tor Browser | A Firefox ESR-based web browser for use of the TOR network.
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VPN client
| OpenVPN | Create a virtual private network over TLS.
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Anonymous electronic payment systems
| Electrum | A secure, forgiving, lightweight and easy to use Bitcoin client.
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| Monero Core | Monero (XMR), after the Esperanto word for money, is a CryptoNight-based cryptocurrency forked from Bytecoin (BCN).
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| Openbazaar-desktop | OpenBazaar 2.0 Desktop Client (talks to openbazaar-go server daemon).
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| Taler | Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves. Electronic payment system that accepts any currency, is energy-friendly, makes clients anonymous and allows governments to tax payments
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Encrypted communication
| Gajim | Light and fast Jabber/XMPP client for GNU/Linux and Windows—OTR support via plugin.
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| Jami | Distributed and encrypted audio/video/text communication software building on SIP.
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| pidgin-otr | A Pidgin plugin for off-the-record conversations.
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| Ricochet | Decentralized Instant messenger via the Tor network.
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| Wire | Modern communication tool, full privacy.
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Anonymizing network
| Freenet | Freenet allows efficient distribution of information over the Internet without fear of censorship.
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| Gnunet | GNUnet is a secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. The goal of the GNUnet project is to become the ultimate system for free information exchange in a world hostile toward uncontrolled communication.
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| I2P | Invisible Internet Project
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| Tor | When used with encryption, this helps anonymize and secure your Internet traffic.
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Encryption and GPG
| Ecryptfs-utils | ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities).
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| Gpa | The GNU Privacy Assistant is a simple and friendly graphical interface to GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). This makes it easy to create and manage your keys and key ring!
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| GPG | The encryption program.
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| Category/Security/encryption | Check out all of the encryption packages in the Directory!
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Icedove add-ons
| Enigmail | Want to encrypt your emails? Simply use the Enigmail extension to Icedove!
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| TorBirdy | Provides safe Tor support for Icedove.
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IceCat and Tor Browser add-ons
| HTTPS Everywhere | Encrypt your communications from thousands of websites by enforcing HTTPS Everywhere.
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| NoScript | Install NoScript and enable ‘Forbid scripts globally’ to improve the security of your browser by preventing 0day JavaScript attacks. This is a drastic option as it will render many websites unusable as they rely heavily on JavaScript. NoScript offers a whitelist you can use to selectively enable JavaScript for sites you trust, but this is considered especially bad for your anonymity if you're using NoScript with Tor.
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| Tor Child Abuse Block | Filters Tor .onion domains via the Blacklist given at ahmia.fi.
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