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HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.
Haven
It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical areas. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector, watching for unexpected guests and unwanted intruders.
Historical/RequestPolicy
RequestPolicy's new version is under development as RequestPolicy Continued. This addon prevents all connections to external domains or IPs from any website you visit, this means no connections to external advertisement hosters, analytics not on their servers and more things that you might not want to connect to or load. Saves bandwidth and privacy. It does require you to give explicit permission for these connections to happen, which is easily done with a drop-down menu of attempted connections and whether you wish to allow them each permanently or temporarily.
I2P
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a project to build, deploy, and maintain a network supporting secure and anonymous communication. People using I2P are in control of the tradeoffs between anonymity, reliability, bandwidth usage, and latency. There is no central point in the network on which pressure can be exerted to compromise the integrity, security, or anonymity of the system. The network supports dynamic reconfiguration in response to various attacks, and has been designed to make use of additional resources as they become available. Of course, all aspects of the network are open and freely available. Unlike many other anonymizing networks, I2P doesn't try to provide anonymity by hiding the originator of some communication and not the recipient, or the other way around. I2P is designed to allow peers using I2P to communicate with each other anonymously — both sender and recipient are unidentifiable to each other as well as to third parties. For example, today there are both in-I2P web sites (allowing anonymous publishing / hosting) as well as HTTP proxies to the normal web (allowing anonymous web browsing).
IceCat/Disconnect
Disconnect lets you visualize and block the otherwise invisible websites that track your search and browsing history.
  • Load the pages you go to 27% faster.
  • Stop tracking by 2,000+ third-party sites.
  • Encrypt the data you share with popular sites.
IceCat/NoScript
The NoScript (aka NoScript Security Suite) Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other Mozilla-based browsers. Its aim is to allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Click-jacking attacks. It is also useful to prevent Flash running on the browser. But its main advantage could be the alerts given on its interface. There is an increasing number of Web sites that cannot run without non-free JavaScript programs downloaded and executed on the visitor's computer. Richard Stallman first raised this another concern with his article The JavaScript Trap, pointing out that most JavaScript programs are not freely licensed, and that even free software Web browsers are usually configured to download and run these non-free programs without informing the user. So maybe NoScript could encourage people to keep informed about this related issue and take action. Anyway, NoScript is an extremely valuable Firefox extension for security. Its unique white-list based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality...
IceCat/User-Agent Switcher
Quickly and easily switch between popular user-agent strings.
Inboxen
Email service that allows a person to create an almost infinite amount of unique email addresses that the user can give to 3rd party websites. This lets the user have more control of their identity/privacy and keeps their personal email address free of junk.
Invizi
Invizi helps you track your cryptocurrency transactions. All your data is stored locally, encrypted and never leaves your computer. Invizi can calculate your profit and loss, your historical balance, your assets allocations and more. Your transactions can be automatically synchronized with exchanges, entered manually or imported via csv files.
JavaScript-Toggle-On-and-Off
It's a simple program used to enable and disable JavaScript easily. You can add websites to a whitelist and decide if the website will be reloaded when pressing the button.
JiveSearch
Self hostable search engine focused on privacy
Karpion Anti-Phishing Toolbar
This is the first release of Karpion, the Anti-Phishing toolbar for the web browser Konqueror. This tool bar is a part of the Open Phishing Database project.
Kontalk
Kontalk is a free software, secure and distributed instant messaging driven by the community. Kontalk protocol is based on XMPP with end-to-end encryption in both server-to-server and server-to-client. Kontalks is basically for phone, but it's also available for desktop now (GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS).
Libphish
Freshports link available but no download links available. All maintainer emails broken. Poppy-one (talk) 15:21, 6 August 2018 (EDT) Libphish is part of the Open Phishing Database project, an effort to create and maintain and open database of phishing sites in order to protect users, in addition to providing extensions to browsers that utilize the database. Libphish is a library which interacts with the Open Phishing Database, providing a consistent API which browsers and other programs can use to verify the safety and risk level of URLs.
MAT2
mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3: at its core, it's a library, used by an eponymous command-line interface, as well as several file manager extensions.
MasterPassword
Most password managers are password vaults: they let you store or generate a strong password for your services and then encrypt that key and store it for later retrieval. This approach presents many problems, in particular in the modern mobile age, that result in many frustrations: * Vault availability: If your vault is not available, you cannot use any of your services. * Added risk of identity loss: If you lose (eg. HDD failure/house fire) your vault, you instantly lose your entire online identity. * Force of law: Many countries have laws that require you to divulge the encryption key if a lawful search discovers your vault. Some password vaults implement features to try and address these issues, such as Internet sync, cloud-based vaults or backups and self-destructing vaults. These features all work around issues inherent to the solution and bring their own set of issues: * Network sync: Keeping data secure in transit is non-trivial and adds security risks. * Backups: Requires that you keep multiple locations secure from loss and theft, as well as the vault in transit. * Cloud-based services: Requires you to trust an external party and sacrifices transparency and freedom. * Defensive destruction: Reliability issues and again, risk total identity loss. Master Password is a completely different approach to passwords. The core issue that brings forth these problems is the vault used to store passwords. Master Password removes the vault from the solution by being a stateless solution, thus avoiding each of these issues. Master Password works by being an offline and stateless algorithm used to calculate your site passwords on-demand. Your passwords exist only as long as you need them and then disappear from disk and memory. Passwords are calculated based on a master password and the user's full name, combined with the name of the site. Calculation is based on strong, known and understood cryptographic hashes. Hash-based password generation is not new, but Master Password is a careful implementation that avoids many issues that other hash-based password managers suffer from. Cryptography is not easy and upon inspection, the security of most hash-based password generators completely falls apart. Master Password uses scrypt combined with hmac-sha256 and salting to prevent all known attack vectors.
Metager
MetaGer is a meta search-engine written in PHP. It is licenced under the terms of the AGPL-3. This and other open-source projects are developed by the german non-profit NGO SUMA-EV. They run an instance on https://metager.de/en . The developer version is available at https://metager3.de/en .
Mobilizon
Mobilizon is a federated system for organizing events developed by French non-profit Framasoft. It features the ability to create multiple profiles per account for increased privacy, as well as tools for co-ordinating events both with the general public (which allow participation without an account) and among organizers using "groups". However, it aims to be just "a tool", and rejects "features like subscriptions counters, thumbs ups or info walls with infinite scrolling". The ActivityPub protocol is used for federation.
Movim
Movim (My Open Virtual Identity Manager) is a distributed social network built on top of XMPP. It can be accessed using existing XMPP clients and Jabber accounts. Movim is a distributed social networking platform. It builds an abstraction layer for communication and data management while leveraging the strength of the underlying XMPP protocol. XMPP is a widely used open standards communication platform. Using XMPP allows the service to interface with existing XMPP clients like Conversations, Pidgin, Xabber and Jappix. Users can directly login to Movim using their existing Jabber account. Movim addresses the privacy concerns related to centralized social networks by allowing users set up their own server (or "pod") to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data. Users can export their data to other pods or offline allowing for greater flexibility. It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud-based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on PHP, is a free software and can be experimented with by external developers. Movim supports OMEMO, group chats (public and private, with or without password) with reactions, stickers and GIFs, it supports also screen-sharing, VOIP (1 to 1) and microblogging.
NNCP
NNCP (Node to Node copy) is a collection of utilities simplifying secure store-and-forward files, mail and commands exchanging. This utilities are intended to help build up small size (dozens of nodes) ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed darknet delay-tolerant networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file requests, Internet mail and commands transmission. All packets are integrity checked, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), explicitly authenticated by known participants public keys. Onion encryption is applied to relayed packets. Each node acts both as a client and server, can use push and poll behaviour model. Out-of-box offline sneakernet/floppynet, dead drops, sequential and append-only CD-ROM/tape storages, air-gapped computers support. But online TCP daemon with full-duplex resumable data transmission exists.


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