[liberationtech] Seeking comments - [ALPHA] List of digital security list of services, tools and resources of interest

[Tom Ritter]

On 27 November 2014 at 07:53, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org> wrote:
> Dear Libtech community,
>
> I've developed a list of digital security list of services, tools and resources of interest. It is pretty much in "alpha", meaning that it is more a list and brainstorming idea, that hasn't gone through a systematic review, comment and analysis.
>
> It's very much an independent project that has as an aim to be able to answer the question "what tools should I consider and/or look at". I welcome any comments, suggestions and possible next steps to translate the list into something constructive that could be used by those in at risk contexts.
>
> Presently the list is a google spreadsheet. URL is below. I welcome suggestions as to alternate locations the text could be hosted at...


Antivirus - Unless I'm mistaken, Dekekt is specifically designed to
detect only a few specific pieces of malware, and that folks who are
less technically familiar with virii should use something in addition.
Winodws Security Essentials for Windows is free and about as adequate
as any other paid service.

Truecrypt/Ciphersecure is not an Operating System

Recommending CACert is disingenuous as it is not in any trust stores,
so you'll get certificate errors.  Let's Encrypt is not available yet.
Just about any CA is equivaltnt o any other - at the level of people
who don't know what a 'CA' is, they compete on price, not features.

Onionshare does not do cloud backup

-tom