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1 HN user recommended this between 2016 and 2017, in 5 comments.
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It's used by a couple of thousand NGO workers, travellers and journalists to manage their physical and digital security ont he move (and it's free, open source).
Umbrella's lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to dealing with a kidnapping or conducting physical counter-surveillance. Users can mark, customise and share simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move.
You can download Umbrella here -Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u... -or Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/... -or F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo (Fingerprint: 39EB57052F8D684514176819D1645F6A0A7BD943DBC31AB101949006AC0BC228) -Our code: https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_android -Our code audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html
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In a similar vein, we recently built Umbrella App - which has has tons of simple, easily accessible lessons on digital and physical security issues (from sending a secure email to dealing with a kidnap). It's designed to help make security easier for travellers, journalists, activists on the move. It's open source and available here:
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
-https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...
-https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo
The raw content is CC and available here for reuse: https://github.com/securityfirst
More info: https://www.secfirst.org
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Hi there. Our organisation, Security First (https://www.secfirst.org) has just launched Umbrella - a free, open source, Android app to help activists, journalists and travellers manage their digital and physical security in high risk countries.
Built by media, NGO, human rights and technology security professionals. The lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to conducting physical counter-surveillance. You can choose your level of ability or type of protection needed and get answers that reflect your needs. Users can mark, customise and share simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move.
It’s free, open source and available to download on Android from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...
F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo
Github Code and Content Repo: https://github.com/securityfirst
-Code audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html
Skills needed:
-Android Development
-Copywriting - app content is a bit dense could do we editing down, updating and more graphics etc, but website, documentation etc could be a lot better!
-Translation (80% of Spanish Done, 88% of Mandarin, see https://www.transifex.com/otf/umbrella-app/dashboard/)
-UI/UX improvements and suggestions
-Q&A
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For loads more digital and physical security manuals and advice (from using TOR to dealing with physical surveillance) that work offline on your phone, we launched an open source app called Umbrella to make it a bit easier.
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
-https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...
-https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo
-Code and Content - https://github.com/securityfirst/
-Code audit - https://secfirst.org/blog.html
-More info - https://secfirst.org
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Hey everyone. Apologies for the blatant plug but seeing as we are talking about security precautions for non-profits and journalists, it's probably relevant...
We build a tool specifically to help non-profits and journalists learn about and manage their digital and physical security on the move. It's called Umbrella App. It's free, open source, on Android and contains tons of lessons on privacy related issues like digital and physical security. Umbrella has everything from how to do basic stuff like communicate with basic tools like Signal to sending a secure email with PGP. However, the unique bit is we also have stuff on the physical side, like how to plan travel, cross borders, set-up a secure physical meeting, deal with detecting surveillance, covering a protest, respond to a kidnapping etc. Basically we have tried to make it a bit of a one-stop-shop for security for regular people, activists, refugees and journalists. We also pull security feeds from places like the UN, Centres for Disease Control etc - which is obviously very important to folks in places like Syria or affected by Zika/Ebola.
There’s tons of really relevant stuff in it, especially for those now mobilising for the first time on some issues. Loads of people are writing guides that solve small parts of the puzzle but we have tried to provide the whole picture in the one place.
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...
F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo
Github Repo: https://github.com/securityfirst
Code Audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html
Hope some folks here find it useful/interesting!
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