- How-To Booklet
- 1. How to protect your computer from malware and hackers
- 2. How to protect your information from physical threats
- 3. How to create and maintain secure passwords
- 4. How to protect the sensitive files on your computer
- 5. How to recover from information loss
- 6. How to destroy sensitive information
- 7. How to keep your Internet communication private
- 8. How to remain anonymous and bypass censorship on the Internet
- Glossary
- Hands-On Guides
- Avast - anti-virus
- Spybot - anti-spyware
- Comodo - firewall
- KeePass - secure password storage
- TrueCrypt - secure file storage
- Cobian - backup
- Undelete Plus - file recovery
- Eraser - secure file removal
- CCleaner - temporary file removal
- Riseup - secure email service
- Pidgin + OTR - secure instant messaging
- VaultletSuite - secure mail client
- Thunderbird + Enigmail - secure mail client
- Firefox - Web browser
- Tor - anonymity and circumvention
- portable security
Riseup - secure email service
Submitted by genner on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 21:32.
Riseup is a collective dedicated to providing private and secure email and hosting services for individuals and organisations committed to political and social justice.
Homepage
Computer Requirements
- An Internet connection
- RiseUp works best when used with the Firefox Web browser
License
- Freeware
Required Reading
- How-to Booklet chapter 7. Keeping your Internet Communication Private
Level: 1: Beginner, 2:Average, 3: Intermediate, 4: Experienced, 5: Advanced
Time required to start using this tool: 20 minutes
What you will get in return:
- A community-driven, advertisement-free email account
- The ability to access your email over the Internet or with an email program
- The ability to conduct private email communications over an encrypted connection
- The ability to change your email address, set your email box size, and invite others to join RiseUp
1.1 Things you should know about this tool before you start
RiseUp is a collective dedicated to providing private and secure hosting, listing and mail services for individuals and organisations committed to political and social justice. Since their services are free, your email account is much smaller than at other, advertisement-driven and non-secure providers. Also, a new account can only be registered by those who have received an invite code from existing members, or participants of the Digital Security Project. More on this below.
RiseUp operates exclusively over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) providing a secure connection between your computer and their server. This security is maintained when reading your email in a client program, over secure POP, IMAP and SMTP connections (these refer to special protocols used by a mail program to download your email. Please refer to the Thunderbird guide for more details).
RiseUp is compatible with Mozilla Thunderbird. To find out how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to read your registered RiseUp email, please refer to the Thunderbird Hands-on guide.