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Do your part to resist Government surveillance and take back your privacy:

• Browser Privacy: HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock Plus + EasyList, Disconnect, NoScript (FireFox), NotScript (Chrome)
• VPNs: Private Internet Access (US), BTGuard (Canada), ItsHidden (Africa), Ipredator (Sweden), Faceless.me (Cyprus / Netherlands)
• Internet Anonymization: Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, I2P
• Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt (Windows / OSX / Linux), File Vault (Mac).
• File/Email Encryption: GPGTools + GPGMail (Mac), GPG4Win (Windows), Enigmail (Windows / OSX / Linux)
• IM Encryption: Pidgin + Pidgin OTR
• IM/Voice Encryption: Mumble, Jitsi
• Phone/SMS Encryption: WhisperSystems, Ostel, Spore, Threema, Silent Circle ($$$)
• Google Alternative: DuckDuckGo, StartPage
• Digital P2P Currency: BitCoin
• Live Anonymous/Secure Linux: TAILS Linux

If you have any problems installing or using the above software, please contact the projects. They would love to get feedback and help you use their software.

Have no clue what Cryptography is or why you should care? Checkout the Crypto Party Handbook or the EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project.

Just want some simple tips? Checkout EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy.

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Replace Ghostery with DoNotTrackMe or Disconnect? Apparently Ghostery's parent company actually sells the anonymous data it collects.

Another great source of privacy protecting tools can be found at https://prism-break.org/

@postmodern I'd say Disconnect looks better. HN discussion here

And why not Ad-Block instead of ABP?

Added GPG4Win

Added Threema

@PhearTheCeal replaced Ghostery with Disconnect. You can opt-out of the "acceptable ads" in Ad Block Plus.

@postmodern We need to pull out TrueCrypt right away

Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-secure-official-sourceforge-page-abruptly-warns/

I recommend µBlock over AdBlock, it's more resource efficient. The EFF's Privacy Badger is a good alternative to Ghostery. Ixquick is another privacy-focused search engine (they even have a new, less 1999 look coming soon, I see!).

For the Browser Privacy category, I recommend adding uBlock Origin and uMatrix (also by @gorhill, like NoScript but with much more granularity) as well as ScriptSafe for Chrome (which is like NoScript but with a better interface). KB SSL Enforcer is a good alternative to HTTPS Everywhere, too; it learns which sites support HTTPS and which don't rather than relying on a central list.

CASVPN is currently providing its best VPN service in more than 57 countries.CASVPN has a huge infrastructure and with great customer support, we are performing well. The super fast and super secure servers make CASVPN best vpn service according to speed and security perspective.

My own list of privacy tools https://privacytoolslist.com. I list as many worthy open source & free privacy tools as possible so that a person has a choice what tool to use. Any any comments and suggestions are welcome at my issue tracker.