Hello Everyone, this is a list of resources that I hope to continue adding to.

So... if you have recommendations, advice, suggested additions/deletions... or whatever else... please feel free to put them in the comments section of this post.

Use all software and follow all guides at your own risk.

This is a cheat sheet for various privacy, security, radio and software resources.

Begin: Expanded Privacy, Security & Software Cheat Sheet

General:

Securing your smartphone:

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

Ycombinator thread for securing your smartphone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829317

Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications

https://ssd.eff.org/

Practical privacy: Find privacy tools and options.

https://disint.org/

Privacy YouTuber that provides a lot of tips over a range of topics.

https://www.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockwellTV

You are sharing URLs with Tracking Links. Please stop.

https://medium.com/@ian-darwin/you-are-sharing-urls-with-tracking-links-please-stop-502c6f54895

Networking Tools:

A tool to detect and find so-called “Stingrays” or “IMSI Catchers,” devices that identify an individual mobile phone in a crowd by mimicking a cell phone tower:

https://www.eff.org/pages/crocodile-hunter

A network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your Internet traffic:

https://sniffnet.net/

Messaging:

Signal

End to end encrypted Signal messenger: *Phone number required

https://signal.org/

End to end encrypted Matrix messenger: *No phone number required

Matrix element

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/

Matrix

End to end encrypted Matrix Element messenger: *No phone number required

https://element.io/

Briarproject

Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers.

Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.

https://briarproject.org/

Briarproject Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.android

Briarproject F-Droid

https://briarproject.org/installing-briar-via-f-droid/

Servalproject

Direct phone to phone communication

https://github.com/servalproject

Metadata Removal:

Exiftool

Removes metadata from files:

https://exiftool.org/

Operating Systems:

Tails OS

https://tails.net/

Qubes OS

http://www.qubes-os.org/

Operating Systems that are geared towards low-end and older hardware:

Puppy Linux

https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

Lubuntu

A complete operating system that ships the essential apps and services for daily use

https://lubuntu.me/

anitX

https://antixlinux.com/

A lightweight general purpose operating system

KolibriOS

A tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system

https://kolibrios.org/en

KolibriOS on git

https://git.kolibrios.org/

Mobile Operating Systems

GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.org/

Sailfish OS

https://sailfishos.org/

LineageOS

https://lineageos.org/

/e/OS

https://e.foundation/e-os/

Networking Operating Systems:

Openwrt

Works on a plethora of routers and other devices

https://openwrt.org/

Zeroshell

Dedicated Router and Firewall Appliances completely administrable via web interface.

https://archiveos.org/zeroshell/

DragonOS

For Software Defined Radio

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/

Browsers:

Librewolf browser for desktop

https://librewolf.net/

Brave browser mobile and desktop

https://brave.com/

Kagi Mac iOS browser

https://kagi.com/orion/

Ironfox mobile browser

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/

DuckDuckGo browser Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/get-duckduckgo/does-duckduckgo-make-a-browser/

https://github.com/duckduckgo

Lynx:

Text based web browser

https://lynx.invisible-island.net

Search Engines:

DuckDuckGo

https://duckduckgo.com/

Search Encrypt

https://searchencrypt.com/home

Swisscows:

https://swisscows.com/en

Other:

Deadman's switch

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

How To (Privately) Live on Crypto

https://peakd.com/crypto/@thedessertlinux/how-to-privately-live-on-crypto-8sc

OSINT:

Bellingcat’s Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit

https://github.com/bellingcat/toolkit/tree/main

OSINT CHEAT SHEET - List OSINT Tools

https://github.com/Jieyab89/OSINT-Cheat-sheet

OSINT Funnel Methodology

https://github.com/pdudotdev/ofm

Radio:

CHIRP for radio programming

https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

RadioReference Database

https://www.radioreference.com/db/

The National Association for Amateur Radio

https://www.arrl.org/

SDR-Radio.com

https://www.sdr-radio.com/

Hamnet IP-Database

https://hamnetdb.net/

Hamnet Map

https://hamnetdb.net/map.cgi

Amateur radio frequency allocations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocations

Ham Radio For Dummies Cheat Sheet:

https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/digital-audio-radio/ham-radio/ham-radio-for-dummies-cheat-sheet-207898/

MURS (Multi-Use Radio Service) Band Info:

https://bettersaferadio.com/murs-multi-use-radio-service-band/

Family Radio Service (FRS/GMRS):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service

Weboost Cellular signal boosters 1:

https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/weboost

Wilson Amplifiers Cellular signal boosters 2:

https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/

Software:

Blender

3D software

https://www.blender.org

Audacity

Audio editing and recording

https://www.audacityteam.org

Jpegoptim

Image compression

https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim

Gimp

Image editing

https://www.gimp.org

LibreOffice

Office suite

https://www.libreoffice.org

Sublime Text

Text editor that can handle very large files.

https://www.sublimetext.com/

Gedit

General purpose text editor

https://gedit-text-editor.org/

Notepad++

https://notepad-plus-plus.org

Open Source Software Directory

Large directory of open source software

https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com

Expanded Privacy & Security Cheat Sheet Files & Online Versions:

PDF Version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJPauFLE7RX3hqtMLY8hCa_puk3zvfzk/view?usp=drive_link

TXT Version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AnXpbSQzfgmsk13fTQ28zBnCIBgtnxEB/view?usp=drive_link

Google Doc Version:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FNvTPU2SSEqZPI63upH5l5nroHyocsLggPOtROUrpg/edit?usp=drive_link

Hive Blockchain Peakd Version:

https://peakd.com/technology/@jacobpeacock/expanded-privacy-security-and-software

Hive Blockchain Ecency Version:

https://ecency.com/technology/@jacobpeacock/expanded-privacy-security-and-software

End: Expanded Privacy, Security & Software Cheat Sheet

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