by Dark_Shroud
Here is part of my big alternative list.
Email:
- Privacy-Conscious Email Services List
- Scryptmail – Free, based in US, end-to-end encryption.
- Protonmail – A fully encrypted email service, hosted in Switzerland.
- msgsafe.io – Private, encrypted, online communication. For everyone
- Tutanota – A fully encrypted email service, hosted in Germany.
- Mailfence – Based in Belgium, end-to-end encryption with Digital Signatures.
- VFEmail – Since 2001, providing businesses and end-users a quick and convenient way to ensure their own security when it comes to email.
- Unseen.is – Private and Secure. Messaging, Calling, Email and Hosting from Iceland.
- Outlook – The only full-service Gmail competitor.
- virtru – Free for personal use, outlook encryption plug-in.
- TorBirdy – an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that configures it to make connections over the Tor network.
Encrypted Messenger Software:
- Telegram (My pick) – Similar to What’s App only independent, secure, & on all major platforms including the desktop.
- Signal – Encrypted FOSS messenger, only on iOS & Android.
- Threema – Designed to generate as little data on servers as possible, end to end encryption.
- BBM – Old school with a big user base, fully encrypted, & has a feed/channel system.
- wire – Simple, secure, private—always end-to-end.
- Ricochet – Anonymous instant messaging for privacy through the TOR network.
- Tox.chat – Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.
- Unseen.is – Private and Secure. Messaging, Calling, Email and Hosting from Iceland.
- Matrix – Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication.
Password Managers:
Mobile OS Alternatives:
- BlackBerry, Powered by Android
- Cyanogen OS
- Lineage OS – Formerly Cyanogen Mod.
- CopperheadOS – “A hardened open-source operating system based on Android.”
- Sailfish OS – “Open source and developed by the Finnish mobile company Jolla Ltd. and the Sailfish OS community.”
- silent circle – “Silent Circle is a secure communications company offering mobile devices, software applications, and communication management services to the enterprise.”
- Windows 10 Mobile
OS Alternatives:
- Qubes OS – A reasonably secure operating system, what Snowden uses.
- Haiku – Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
Social Media alternatives:
- Gab.ai – Twitter alternative, waiting list to join.
- MINDS – “Your social network,” Open Channel based social media network.
- Diaspora.com – Decentralized online social world where you are in control. Intergrates into other social networks.
- Steemit – a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards.
- BBM – Old school with a big user base, fully encrypted, & a feed/channel system.
- seenlife – Privacy concious Facebook competitor.
- Movim
- GNU social
- Grassfire – a fully featured social environment that includes user profiles, chat, instant messaging, user groups, user news feeds, media uploading/sharing, discussion forums and much more!
- Mastodon – a free, open-source social network. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication.
- Voat.co – Reddit alternative.
Alernate DNS:
VPN/Tunneling Software:
- I2P – The invisible internet project, similar to TOR.
- Freenet – Browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet with strong privacy protections.
- Greycoder – best vpn service reviews.
- Psiphon – “For 10 years, Psiphon has provided open access to the Internet to citizens of countries with information controls and limitations.”
- Lantern – “Better than a VPN”
- Whonix – “offers you the most secure way to surf the web.”
Alternate/Developing web technology:
- I2P – The invisible internet project, similar to TOR.
- Dark Mail Technical Alliance – developing a unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the ‘next-generation’ of private and secure email.
- LEAP – a non-profit dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure encrypted communication.
- ZeroNet – Peer to Peer, Open, free and uncensorable websites.
- IPFS – A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
- Matrix – Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication.
Views:
Let’s add OpenMandriva to the list of alternative OSes: http://openmandriva.org/
It’s meant for end users and at least one of its main developers is known to be anti-neolib anti-neocon. Probably one of the safer places to go at least if the concern is CIA spyware.