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Texting / Messaging / SMS (Short Message Service)

Signal Private Messenger is an app developed by Open Whisper Systems. The app provides end-to-end encryption for your text messaging and voice/video phone calls (when both parties are using Signal).
Available for: Android: google.com, iOS: apple.com, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Signal is free and open source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code.
Signal – Backup and Restore Messages
How to Use Signal
- Journalists and activists use end-to-end encryption apps like Signal every day to keep their communications private, but they’re not the only ones who could stand to benefit from these apps. Motherboard‘s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai explains.
Signal – the most secure messenger for everyone
Messaging App Has Bipartisan Support Amid Hacking Concerns
Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal
Encrypted Video & Voice Messenger
Cybersecurity for the People: How to Keep Your Chats Truly Private With Signal
Security Tips Every Signal User Should Know by Micah Lee
Signal PINs are needed to support new features and they serve as an optional registration lock.
Troubleshooting FAQ

SMS Support on Signal

Can I send SMS/MMS with Signal?
Removing SMS support from Signal Android (Oct. 2022)
Reddit r/signal: SMS Removal Megathread
Signal to Ditch SMS/MMS Messaging on Android
Tip: To choose between “Insecure SMS” or “Signal,” long press the send icon.
Important: If you uninstall Signal, or choose not to install Signal on your new device, you must Unregister.
Important: If you’ve uninstalled Signal/TextSecure and you no longer receive SMS messages from Signal/TextSecure users, you need to Unregister.

Migrating SMS/MMS from Signal

Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.
Telegram does not require your phone number.
What is Telegram and why should I use it?

Adobe end-of-life’d Flash on December 31, 2020. Please visit our General EOL and Enterprise EOL FAQs for more information.
Note: ProDesignTools.com, is an affiliate of Adobe Systems

The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites — through EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, various lists of malware sites, and uBlock Origin’s own filter lists.
Add-on’s: Mozilla Firefox ~ Google Chrome
Security Now 523: uBlock Origin Features

NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-Cross-site scripting (XSS) protection available in a browser.
As NoScript requires user interaction to train it, you may want to do the following:
1. Install uBlock Origin
2. Install NoScript
3. Go into Add-ons Manager > Extensions
4. Disable NoScript, but, choose “No, just stop blocking scripts” when you see the Security Downgrade Warning.

Enable Dark Mode on Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Wikipedia, Twitter and many other websites.

Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list.
When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
Available for Firefox and Google Chrome

This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. New tabs opened from links (or etc.) are automatically attached to the current tab. If you often use many many tabs, it will help your web browsing because you can understand relations of tabs.

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
re: Conversion: Disable the automatic conversion in DownloadHelper, since it will add a watermark/logo to the resulting video. Use FormatFactory to convert the downloaded .flv to .avi or .mp3.

E-mail client. Open Source.
You can use Thunderbird to download your Web-based e-mail to access and backup locally.

Free Web-based e-mail.
Supports POP3 (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) so you can use Thunderbird to access your Gmail account. Using Thunderbird allows you to store your e-mail locally which allows you to backup your e-mail.
To backup your Gmail by downloading all the mail to your your local hard drive
- Go to: Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab > POP Download section:
  1. Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)
  2. When messages are accessed with POP “keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox”
- This setting will leave everything on-line in Gmail but you’ll have a local duplicate of everything in Thunderbird that you can then backup.
If you can’t afford to loose the contents of your Gmail account, then make sure to download and backup on a regular basis.

PuTTY is a free SSH and Telnet client

mRemoteNG is an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager for Windows PuTTY.
- Save connections for multiple sessions, which can then be organized into folders.
SuperPuTTY is a windows based application which manages putty ssh terminals. Additionally it has a simple scripting language for basic tasks. It additionally supports RDP sessions.
- Multiple PuTTY ssh sessions in tabs.
- Save connection for multiple sessions, which can then be organized into folders.
PuTTY Manager – Tabbed PuTTY, Sessions can be organized into Folders.
PuTTY Connection Manager (Tabbed PuTTY)
MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY) is a small *FREE* utility enabling you to wrap unlimited number of PuTTY applications in one tabbed GUI interface.