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Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free speech
-risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill:
-email encryption. Once you've finished, you'll be able to send and receive
-emails that are scrambled to make sure anyone, including a surveillance agent
-or thief, intercepting your email can't read them. All you need is a computer
-with an Internet connection, an email account, and about forty minutes.</p>
+risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill: email
+encryption. Once you've finished, you'll be able to send and receive emails
+that are scrambled to make sure a surveillance agent or thief intercepting
+your email can't read them. All you need is a computer with an Internet
+connection, an email account, and about forty minutes.</p>
<p>Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protect the privacy
of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance
<h3><em>Step 1.b</em> Install the Enigmail plugin for your email program</h3>
<p>In your email program's menu, select Add-ons (it may be in the Tools
-section). Make sure Extensions is selected on the left. Do you see Enigmail? If
-so, skip this step.</p>
+section). Make sure Extensions is selected on the left. Do you see Enigmail? Make sure it's the latest version. If so, skip this step.</p>
<p>If not, search "Enigmail" with the search bar in the upper right. You
can take it from here. Restart your email program when you're done.</p>
-<p>Enigmail versions prior to 2.0.6 have serious security issues. Make sure to install version 2.0.6 or later. The current version is 2.0.6.1.</p>
+<p>There are major security flaws in versions of GnuPG prior to 2.2.8, and
+Enigmail prior to 2.0.7. Make sure you have GnuPG 2.2.8 and Enigmail 2.0.7,
+or later versions.</p>
+
+<p>Note: As of June 18, 2018, GnuPG 2.2.8 is unavailable for Debian stable and
+testing.</p>
+
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<p>For greater security against potential attacks, you can turn off
HTML. Instead, you can render the message body as plain text. In order
-to do this in Thunderbird, go to View > Message Body As > Plain
+to do this in Thunderbird, go to View > Message Body As > Plain
Text.</p>
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wherever you share your email address, so that people can double-check that
they have the correct public key when they download yours from a keyserver.</p>
-<p class="notes">You may also see public keys referred to by their key ID,
-which is simply the last eight digits of the fingerprint, like C09A61E8 for
-Edward. The key ID is visible directly from the Key Management window. This
-key ID is like a person's first name (it is a useful shorthand but may not be
-unique to a given key), whereas the fingerprint actually identifies the key
-uniquely without the possibility of confusion. If you only have the key ID,
-you can still look up the key (as well as its fingerprint), like you did in
-Step 3, but if multiple options appear, you'll need the fingerprint of the
-person to whom you are trying to communicate to verify which one to use.</p>
+<p class="notes">You may also see public keys referred to by a shorter
+key ID. This key ID is visible directly from the Key Management
+window. These eight character key IDs were previously used for
+identification, which used to be safe, but is no longer reliable. You
+need to check the full fingerprint as part of verifying you have the
+correct key for the person you are trying to contact. Spoofing, in
+which someone intentionally generates a key with a fingerprint whose
+final eight characters are the same as another, is unfortunately
+common.</p>
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