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| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Participants | Narya |
| Skills | Software, Social Networking, Common sense, Cryptography, Learning |
| Status | Active |
| Niche | Software |
| Purpose | Education |
Goal
Make my laptop more MY laptop (and my e-mail.. my calendar... backup... social networks... and well, anything really)
How
- Attend/contribute to the Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series
- Read what others have written (Bit of freedom, Crypto party for example)
- Find (open source) alternatives for all-the-stuff I use now
- Make my laptop more mine, step by step
- Write and/or point to tutorials and other useful sites
Some of the things I did so far
Several things below were/are new to me, so if you have suggestions for other options or for improvements, please let me know.
Laptop / phone
- OS
- Encryption of my home directory (ticked the box to encrypt my home directory in Ubuntu)
- Ubuntu sends searches to Amazon, disabled this
- Reinstalled laptop with Debian
- Changed browser: using firefox now i.s.o. chrome
- Installed [several browser plugins, e.g.
- HTTPSeverywhere - make use of https as much as possible
- Better privacy - remove super cookies
- DoNotTrack - block advertisement, trackers, web stat trackers
- Ghostery - comparable with DoNotTrack, but works better
- NoScript - block JavaScript and Java stuff
- Alternatives for Google stuff
- Use DuckDuckGo in stead of google search
- Removed the mail forwarding to google mail and switched back to my own provider. Actually, it would be better to install your own mail server.
Using a paper agenda now - couldn't find a good portable electronic alternative yet. This works just fine. (use the calendar of owncloud?)- Using owncloud calendar, synchronized with phone
- Replaced analytics with Piwik
- OpenStreetMap i.s.o. google maps
- Removed mail and online banking from my mobile phone (can perhaps be put back after I changed the OS)
- SSH tunnel to encrypt internet traffic from another network (e.g. a public wifi spot) to a place I trust more
- Tomboy notes with rsync in stead of Evernote
- Created a PGP key and set the default settings to "encrypt mail" for the people who are already in my list (key ring)
- Getting a PGP smartcard to work
- Social media
- Played around with Diaspora (as alternative to Facebook)
- Checked out Retroshare - it's retro... and you can share things (chat, forum, mail, file, all friend2friend), uses PGP
- Problem: no friends :( Have shut down my FB account anyway. Added bonus: more time to do more important stuff than clicking away evenings
- Tried to install a Diaspora pod. Too complicated. I might try again once the debian package comes out
- Betting on http://pump.io/ now. Installation up to configuration was easy. So far, so good. Next step is to configure it.
- File storage, sharing, backup
- Using encfs together with Dropbox - How to
- Have switched to ownCloud (see section "Server")
- Text messages via https://threema.ch/en/ but I'll probably replace this with messaging via my own communication server
Server
- Installed Debian
- Encrypted disk (option during setup)
- Have set firewall rules (with Shorewall)
- Have installed ownCloud - can be used ala dropbox, and it has apps for calendar and contacts
- I want to have the data on at least two different locations (because... backup):
- Have to figure out how to set up a virtual encrypted disk which is synchronized with another location
- If possible synchronize the user database too, so that I can run mirrored ownCloud instances
- Relevant thread: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/owncloud/2012-June/003918.html
- Raspberry Pi with external USB drive might work. Synchronization by BTsync or something like that
- Need to investigate how to make use of this more secure (info here)
- I want to have the data on at least two different locations (because... backup):
- Working on setting up https (some explanation, example 1, example 2)
- Forwarded the https port. Now I need to figure out how to redirect http requests to https
- Installed Etherpad, as a service, only accessible from certain ips - for making and sharing notes
- To do next: integrate etherpad with owncloud