For Information Privacy Lindsay Taylor Western University An Open Source Toolbox For Information Privacy Lindsay Taylor Western University
What is Open Source? Free Redistribution Source Code Derived Works Integrity of the Author’s Source Code No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor Distribution of License License Must Not Be Specific To A Product License Must Not Restrict Other Software License Must Be Technology Neutral Open Source Definition from Open Source Initiative
Open Source + Privacy What are the protections open source offers? What are the risks? Open source cryptography More contributions = Better security ↓For-profit data collection Signatures for Authenticity eg. GnuPG
Why Is this important?
Tor Browser
KEEPass Strong Passwords Long Random Frequently updated
Tutanota Bob’s Public Key Bob’s Private Key
More Open SourcE TOOls
Thank You! https://opensource.org/ https://www.schneier.com/cryptogram/archives/1999/0915.html#OpenSourceandSec urity https://ssd.eff.org/en https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Archive/Security/Encryption_and_Decryption https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en https://tb-manual.torproject.org/en-US/ http://keepass.info/help/base/firststeps.html https://tutanota.com/howto https://libraryfreedomproject.org/resources/privacytoolkit/