privacy-toolkit/TOOLS-LIST.md

Privacy Toolkit - Tool Candidates

This is our working list of privacy tools to include in the toolkit.

🎯 Priority 1 (Core Privacy Tools)

• Dangerzone - Document sanitization ✅
• mat2 - Metadata removal
• Signal Desktop - Secure messaging
• Tor Browser - Anonymous browsing
• BleachBit - Secure deletion
• firejail - App sandboxing

🛡️ Document Sanitization

• Dangerzone - PDF/Office document sanitizer using container isolation ✅
• ExifCleaner - Metadata removal from images/PDFs/videos
• mat2 - Metadata Anonymization Toolkit

🔐 Encryption & Secure Storage

• VeraCrypt - Full disk encryption and encrypted containers ✅
• age - Modern file encryption ✅
• Cryptomator - Client-side cloud storage encryption ✅

📂 Secure File Transfer

• croc - Secure, fast P2P file transfer ✅

📡 Secure Communication

• Signal Desktop - E2E encrypted messaging
• SimpleX - E2E encrypted messaging without identifiers (documented in PAI)
• Jami - P2P encrypted video/audio calls

🌐 Anonymity & Network Privacy

• Tor Browser - Anonymous web browsing
• ProtonVPN - Privacy-focused VPN (already installed)
• OnionShare - Anonymous file sharing over Tor

🔍 Metadata & Privacy Analysis

• ExifTool - View/edit metadata in files
• Sherlock - Username enumeration across platforms

🗑️ Secure Deletion

• BleachBit - Secure file deletion and system cleaning
• shred - Overwrite files securely (already installed)

🔒 Password & Secret Management

• KeePassXC - Offline password manager (already in use)
• Bitwarden - Open source password manager (self-hostable)

📧 Email Privacy

• Thunderbird + Enigmail - PGP email encryption
• ProtonMail Bridge - Use ProtonMail with desktop clients

🛡️ System Hardening

• firejail - Application sandboxing
• AppArmor - Mandatory Access Control (built into Debian)

🌐 DNS Privacy

• dnscrypt-proxy - Encrypted DNS queries
• Unbound - Validating DNS resolver

📱 Mobile Companion Tools

• scrcpy - Control Android via ADB

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Last Updated: 2025-11-12 Tools Completed: 5/30+ (Dangerzone, croc, age, VeraCrypt, Cryptomator) Priority Tools: 1/6

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📦 APT-Based Tools (Quick Install)

Many privacy tools are available directly via apt! Run:

./install-apt-tools.sh

APT Tools Included:

• keepassxc - Password manager ✅
• age - File encryption ✅
• mat2 - Metadata removal ✅
• exiftool - EXIF metadata viewer/editor ✅
• bleachbit - Secure deletion ✅
• firejail - App sandboxing ✅
• tor - Anonymity network ✅
• torsocks - Torify applications ✅
• onionshare - Anonymous file sharing ✅
• sherlock - Username enumeration ✅

Note: OnionShare 2.6.3 in Debian is up to date with latest release! 🎉

See APT-TOOLS-VERSIONS.md for version details.