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COLLABORATION – Collaborative Pads and File Shares

Etherpad by Riseup net
Etherpad is a software libre web application that allows for real-time group collaboration of text documents. Riseup does not store IP addresses, we require https, and pads are automatically destroyed after 60 days of inactivity.
(For added security, access pad.riseup.net via the Riseup VPN or this Tor hidden service: kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r3.... )
pad.riseup.net/

Share Files Anonymously using Riseup.net’s SHARE
Up to 50MB, Free, anonymous, and link is deleted automatically after 12 hours
share.riseup.net/

CryptPad Collaboration suite end-to-end encrypted and open-source
CryptPad is built to enable collaboration while keeping data private. All content is encrypted and decrypted by your browser. This means documents, chats, and files are unreadable outside of the session where you are logged in. Even the service administrators do not have access to your information.
CryptPad.fr is the official instance of the open-source CryptPad project. It is administered by XWiki SAS, the employee-owned French company which created and maintains the product.
cryptpad.fr/

Disroot’s Cryptpad is powered by Cryptpad. It provides a totally end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite. It allows you to create, share and work together on text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, whiteboards or organize your project on a kanban board. All this with zero knowledge where data is encrypted before it leaves your computer.

COMMUNICATION – Email, Video Chat

Thunderbird, for encrypted emails
Thunderbird is a free and open source email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client, that’s easy to set up and customize. One of the core principles of Thunderbird is the use and promotion of open standards – this focus is a rejection of our world of closed platforms and services that can’t communicate with each other. We want our users to have freedom and choice in how they communicate.
www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Protonmail – Encrypted, secure and free email
ProtonMail is the world’s largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. We are open source and protected by Swiss privacy law.
protonmail.com/

Jitsi Meet Video Conferencing Software.
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
jitsi.org

OFFICE

LibreOffice, an office suite
LibreOffice is community-driven and developed software, and is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation. LibreOffice is free and open source software, originally based on OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice), and is the most actively developed OpenOffice.org successor project.
www.libreoffice.org/

27 Free Alternatives to Adobe
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PLATFORMS – Networks, Browsers and Operating Systems

RISE UP NETWORK – Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services through donations only.
Riseup provides products to facilitate secure communications, including use of strong encryption, anonymizing services, and minimal data retention, which aimed at individuals and non-profit and activist groups. Riseup’s two most popular features are secure, privacy-focused email and mailing list management services.
The email service is available through IMAP, POP3, and a web interface. The web interface is a variant of Roundcube or SquirrelMail.
Riseup VPN does not log the user’s IP address, unlike most other VPNs. In 2012, discussing an attack against a Microsoft-developed authentication scheme that makes it trivial to break the encryption used by hundreds of anonymity and security services, Moxie Marlinspike, who unveiled the attack, said VPN services offered by riseup.net, for example, selected a 21-character password on behalf of the user that used a combination of 96 different numbers, symbols, and upper- and lower-case letters to withstand such attacks
we.riseup.net/

Disroot *is a project that was born from the personal need to communicate, share and organize ourselves within our circles through tools that met a series of fundamental criteria for us: they had to be open, decentralized, federated and above all respectful towards freedom and privacy. *
“None of the most popular solutions complied with them, but in our search we found some very interesting projects that did. And since we thought that they should be available to all those with similar ethical principles, we decided not only to group these applications and share them with others, but also to manage them according to those values.
Disroot aims to change the way people are used to interact on the web. We want to encourage and show them not only that there are open and ethical alternatives but also that it is the only possible way to break free from the walled gardens proposed and promoted by proprietary software and corporations, either through our platform, others that have similar values and goals or even their own projects.”
disroot.org/en

Tor Browser encrypts and anonymizes your connection
We, at the Tor Project, fight every day for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become the world’s strongest tool for privacy and freedom online. But Tor is more than just software. It is a labor of love produced by an international community of people devoted to human rights. The Tor Project is deeply committed to transparency and the safety of its users.
www.torproject.org/

Tails O/S is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. Shut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Tails leaves no trace on the computer when shut down. Tails includes a selection of applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely. Everything in Tails is ready-to-use and has safe defaults. Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship. Enjoy the Internet like it should be.
tails.boum.org/

SECURITY

KeePassXC, to create and store strong passwords
KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information.
You can run KeePassXC on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. KeePassXC is for people with extremely high demands of secure personal data management. It saves many different types of information, such as usernames, passwords, URLs, attachments, and notes in an offline, encrypted file that can be stored in any location, including private and public cloud solutions.
For easy identification and management, user-defined titles and icons can be specified for entries. In addition, entries are sorted in customizable groups. An integrated search function allows you to use advanced patterns to easily find any entry in your database. A customizable, fast, and easy-to-use password generator utility allows you to create passwords with any combination of characters or easy to remember passphrases.
keepassxc.org/

MISCELLANY – PDFs et al.

100s of Free PDFs – Anarchist – Protestor – Activist – Medic – DIY
Hundreds of links to PDF downloads from everything from How to Start an Affinity Group, Street Medic Guides, Historical articles, DIY Guides, How to talk to media, Live through Grand Jury,….more topics than you can imagine. All in one place.
Spread the knowledge.
www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/pdfs/