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35 <h2><em>#
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36 <p>You've now completed the basics of email encryption with GnuPG, taking action against bulk surveillance. These next steps will help make the most of the work you've done.
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86 <h3>Bring Email Self-Defense to new people
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88 <p>Understanding and setting up email encryption is a daunting task for many. To welcome them, make it easy to find your public key and offer to help with encryption. Here are some suggestions:
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91 <li>Lead an Email Self-Defense workshop for your friends and community, using our
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93 <li>Use
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</a> to compose a message to a few friends and ask them to join you in using encrypted email. Remember to include your GnuPG public key fingerprint so they can easily download your key.
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95 <li>Add your public key fingerprint anywhere that you normally display your email address. Some good places are: your email signature (the text kind, not the cryptographic kind), social media profiles, blogs, Websites, or business cards. At the Free Software Foundation, we put ours on our
<a href=
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109 <h3>Protect more of your digital life
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111 <p>Learn surveillance-resistant technologies for instant messages, hard drive storage, online sharing, and more at
<a href=
"https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Privacy_pack"> the Free Software Directory's Privacy Pack
</a> and
<a href=
"https://prism-break.org">prism-break.org
</a>.
</p> <p>If you are using Windows, Mac OS or any other proprietary operating system, we recommend you switch to a free software operating system like GNU/Linux. This will make it much harder for attackers to enter your computer through hidden back doors. Check out the Free Software Foundation's
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119 <h3>Optional: Add more email protection with Tor
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120 <p><a href=
"https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en">The Onion Router (Tor) network
</a> wraps Internet communication in multiple layers of encryption and bounces it around the world several times. When used properly, Tor confuses surveillance field agents and the global surveillance apparatus alike. Using it simultaneously with GnuPG's encryption will give you the best results.
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121 <p>To have your email program send and receive email over Tor, install the
<a href=
"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">Torbirdy plugin
</a> the same way you installed Enigmail, by searching for it through Add-ons.
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123 <p>Before beginning to check your email over Tor, make sure you understand
<a href=
"https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhatProtectionsDoesTorProvide">the security tradeoffs involved
</a>. This
<a href=
"https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https">infographic
</a> from our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation demonstrates how Tor keeps you secure.
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148 <h3>Learn more about GnuPG</h3>
149 <p>There are a lot more features of GnuPG to discover, including encrypting files on your computer. There are a variety of resources accessible via Google, but we recommend starting with the links on the <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/">GnuPG Web site</a>.</p>
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172 <dt>Who can read encrypted messages? Who can read signed ones?</dt>
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