[liberationtech] Need some advice re: online secure communications platform for a survivors group

[Griffin Boyce]

Hi Lina,

   While the content isn't encrypted for most of their apps, I would 
recommend Sandstorm as a good hosted option for forums and other 
collaborative apps.  It's free for up to 5 apps (called "grains") and up 
to 200MB storage.  For more, it's $9 a month: https://sandstorm.io/

   For encrypted communication, Ricochet.im is pretty great and doesn't 
require a lot of work to set up.  It has sane defaults (requires Tor to 
run).

best,
Griffin


Lina Srivastava 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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