Hello Everyone, this is a list of resources that I hope to continue adding to.
So... if you have recommendations, advice, suggested additions/deletions... or whatever else... please feel free to put them in the comments section of this post.
This is a cheat sheet for various privacy, security, radio and software resources.
General:
Securing your smartphone:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
Ycombinator thread for securing your smartphone:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829317
Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
Practical privacy: Find privacy tools and options.
Privacy YouTuber that provides a lot of tips over a range of topics.
https://www.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockwellTV
You are sharing URLs with Tracking Links. Please stop.
https://medium.com/@ian-darwin/you-are-sharing-urls-with-tracking-links-please-stop-502c6f54895
Networking Tools:
A tool to detect and find so-called “Stingrays” or “IMSI Catchers,” devices that identify an individual mobile phone in a crowd by mimicking a cell phone tower:
https://www.eff.org/pages/crocodile-hunter
A network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your Internet traffic:
Messaging:
Signal
End to end encrypted Signal messenger: *Phone number required
End to end encrypted Matrix messenger: *No phone number required
Matrix element
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/
Matrix
End to end encrypted Matrix Element messenger: *No phone number required
Briarproject
Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers.
Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
Briarproject Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.android
Briarproject F-Droid
https://briarproject.org/installing-briar-via-f-droid/
Servalproject
Direct phone to phone communication
https://github.com/servalproject
Metadata Removal:
Exiftool
Removes metadata from files:
Operating Systems:
Tails OS
Qubes OS
Operating Systems that are geared towards low-end and older hardware:
Puppy Linux
https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
Lubuntu
A complete operating system that ships the essential apps and services for daily use
anitX
A lightweight general purpose operating system
KolibriOS
A tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system
KolibriOS on git
Mobile Operating Systems
GrapheneOS
Sailfish OS
LineageOS
/e/OS
Networking Operating Systems:
Openwrt
Works on a plethora of routers and other devices
Zeroshell
Dedicated Router and Firewall Appliances completely administrable via web interface.
https://archiveos.org/zeroshell/
DragonOS
For Software Defined Radio
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/
Browsers:
Librewolf browser for desktop
Brave browser mobile and desktop
Kagi Mac iOS browser
Ironfox mobile browser
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/
DuckDuckGo browser Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/get-duckduckgo/does-duckduckgo-make-a-browser/
Lynx:
Text based web browser
https://lynx.invisible-island.net
Search Engines:
DuckDuckGo
Search Encrypt
https://searchencrypt.com/home
Swisscows:
Other:
Deadman's switch
https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
How To (Privately) Live on Crypto
https://peakd.com/crypto/@thedessertlinux/how-to-privately-live-on-crypto-8sc
OSINT:
Bellingcat’s Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit
https://github.com/bellingcat/toolkit/tree/main
OSINT CHEAT SHEET - List OSINT Tools
https://github.com/Jieyab89/OSINT-Cheat-sheet
OSINT Funnel Methodology
https://github.com/pdudotdev/ofm
Radio:
CHIRP for radio programming
https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home
RadioReference Database
https://www.radioreference.com/db/
The National Association for Amateur Radio
SDR-Radio.com
Hamnet IP-Database
Hamnet Map
Amateur radio frequency allocations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocations
Ham Radio For Dummies Cheat Sheet:
MURS (Multi-Use Radio Service) Band Info:
https://bettersaferadio.com/murs-multi-use-radio-service-band/
Family Radio Service (FRS/GMRS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service
Weboost Cellular signal boosters 1:
https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/weboost
Wilson Amplifiers Cellular signal boosters 2:
https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/
Software:
Blender
3D software
Audacity
Audio editing and recording
Jpegoptim
Image compression
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim
Gimp
Image editing
LibreOffice
Office suite
Sublime Text
Text editor that can handle very large files.
Gedit
General purpose text editor
https://gedit-text-editor.org/
Notepad++
Open Source Software Directory
Large directory of open source software
https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com
Expanded Privacy & Security Cheat Sheet Files & Online Versions:
PDF Version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJPauFLE7RX3hqtMLY8hCa_puk3zvfzk/view?usp=drive_link
TXT Version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AnXpbSQzfgmsk13fTQ28zBnCIBgtnxEB/view?usp=drive_link
Google Doc Version:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FNvTPU2SSEqZPI63upH5l5nroHyocsLggPOtROUrpg/edit?usp=drive_link
Hive Blockchain Peakd Version:
https://peakd.com/technology/@jacobpeacock/expanded-privacy-security-and-software
Hive Blockchain Ecency Version:
https://ecency.com/technology/@jacobpeacock/expanded-privacy-security-and-software
Thanks. I emailed you. I agree about not including Signal but did it because so many people use it.
Love his stuff!