[liberationtech] Communicating with people in wartime

[bo0od]

Hey,

Depend on which platform you want to use, is it mobile phone or 
laptop/desktop?

Before i proceed, Im sorry to tell you that this is not for people who 
doesnt know much in tech stuff but its not hard as well to learn.

I will talk about mobiles (assuming that what you want to know about)

its sorta harder to have meaningful confidentiality because there is no 
good way of anonymity inside a mobile phone specially Iphones.

for Android, Its good to have good project who take care of the android 
security and for that there are good ones, I prefer to use GrapheneOS:

https://grapheneos.org/

IM Applications:

Briar which is based on Tor anonymization protocol P2P decentralized: 
(can be installed on any android variant as well)

https://briarproject.org/

For clearnet apps not anonymized by default and use P2P no centralized 
servers use  jami or toxchat:

https://jami.net/
https://tox.chat/download.html

Can be anonymized over Tor by using Orbot app: (cant use VOIP if used 
over Tor)

from f-droid:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/jha8fe/why_is_orbot_removed_from_fdroid/

(Experimental) Check Session which is another P2P app:

https://getsession.org/

For semi-decentralized (called federated) check out matrix client called 
element:

https://element.io/

If you want centralized IM app without anonymization then use Signal:

https://signal.org/

Browsers:

To browse anonymously use TorBrowser available for android:

https://www.torproject.org/download/

For clearnet:

If you gonna have GrapheneOS you gonna have Vanadium with it by default. 
(different from it one can use brave or bromite or firefox..)

If you want to pay in order to secure your environment there are people 
who can do that e.g:

https://www.encrypted-support.com/

Take care.

Sarah Lai Stirland:
> Hi all -- I apologize in advance if I sound like a complete idiot, but I'm
> wondering if there's anyone here who would help me to figure out what the
> safest and most confidential way is to communicate with people (some
> academics) in a country at war. I would like to reach out to some people
> for a story I am working on. Popping off a random email doesn't seem like a
> good idea.
> 
> Please contact me directly.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sarah
> 
>