So this will be a quick touch-base on end-to-end encryption. When we talk about privacy, the last thing I want to do is talk about which company I trust with my privacy. So that’s where end-to-end encryption comes into play.
With end-to-end encryption, you don’t have to trust the provider as long as they’re open source. The app logos you see at the top are examples of open source end-to-end encrypted apps that are made easier for the common person. Protonmail makes email encryption easy, Signal makes secure texting easy, OpenVPN makes it easy to run and/or connect to a VPN server easy, and Nextcloud makes secure file/photo storage in the cloud easy.
The point here is that I don’t want to have to trust someone else, I want to know that my data and communications are secure and private. That’s why for a system to be private it has to be open source and end-to-end encrypted. That way we don’t have to trust the company to not steal our private conversations and data, we know they can’t even access them. That’s what makes an app really private.
These are just some of the apps that can make it easier on you to use end-to-end encryption to gain some online privacy in your life. The things to look for in apps is that they’re open source so that anyone can audit the code to see what it is doing and that they’re using end-to-end encryption to protect your data from people trying to listen over the wire or collect data on your communications.
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