1. For Information Privacy Lindsay Taylor Western University
An Open Source Toolbox
For Information Privacy
Lindsay Taylor Western University

3. 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

4. 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

5. Why Is this important?

6. Tor Browser

7. KEEPass
Strong Passwords
Long
Random
Frequently updated

8. Tutanota
Bob’s Public Key
Bob’s Private Key

9. More Open SourcE TOOls

10. Thank You! https://opensource.org/
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US/docs/Archive/Security/Encryption_and_Decryption