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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 coded to make sure that a surveillance agent or thief that intercepts your email can't read it.</p>
+ 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 coded to make sure that a surveillance agent or thief that intercepts your email can't read it. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account and about half an hour.</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 systems. If you do have something important to hide, you're in good company; these are the same tools that Edward Snowden used to share his famous secrets about the NSA.</p>
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- <p class="notes">This guide relies on software which is freely licensed; it's completely transparent and anyone can copy it or make their own version. This makes it safer from surveillance than proprietary software (like Windows). To be as safe as possible from surveillance, we recommend you switch to a free software operating system like GNU/Linux. Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
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-<p>Let's get started!</p>
+<p>In addition to using encryption, standing up to surveillance requires fighting politically for a <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reduction in the amount of data collected on us</a>, but the essential first step is to protect yourself and make surveillance of your communication as difficult as possible. Let's get started!</p>
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<h2><em>#1</em> Get the pieces</h2>
- <p>All you need to start is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account and about half an hour. You can use your existing email account for this without affecting it.</p>
+ <p class="notes">This guide relies on software which is freely licensed; it's completely transparent and anyone can copy it or make their own version. This makes it safer from surveillance than proprietary software (like Windows). Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
<p>To get started, you'll need a desktop email program installed on your computer. This guide works with free software versions of the Thunderbird email program, and with Thunderbird itself. Email programs are another way to access the same email accounts you can access in a browser (like GMail), but provide extra features.</p>
<p>If you are already have one of these, you can skip to <a href="#step-1b">Step 1.b</a>.</p>
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<dt>I can't find the OpenPGP menu.</dt>
<dd>In many new email programs, the main menu is represented by an image of three stacked horizontal bars. OpenPGP may be inside a section called Tools.</dd>
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- <dd>OpenPGP is a protocol that GnuPG uses, just like HTTP is a protocol for the Web. It's a slightly confusing name that Enigmail uses for its menus.</dd>
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<h3><em>Step 2.b</em> Upload your public key to a keyserver</h3>
<p>In your email program's menu, select OpenPGP → Key Management.</p>
<p>Right click on your key and select Upload Public Keys to Keyserver. Use the default keyserver in the popup.</p>
-<p class="notes">Now someone who wants to send you an encrypted message can download your public key from the Internet.</b>
+<p class="notes">Now someone who wants to send you an encrypted message can download your public key from the Internet. There are multiple keyservers that you can select from the menu when you upload, but they are all copies of each other, so it doesn't matter which one you use. However, it sometimes takes a few hours for them to match each other when a new key is uploaded.</p>
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+ <h3>GnuPG, OpenPGP, what?</h3>
+ <p>You're using a program called GnuPG, but the menu in your email program is called OpenPGP. Confusing, right? In general, the terms GnuPG, GPG, GNU Privacy Guard, OpenPGP and PGP are used interchangeably, though they all have slightly different meanings.</p>
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<h2><em>#4</em> Learn the Web of Trust</h2>
<p>Email encryption is a powerful technology, but it has a weakness; it requires a way to verify that a person's public key is actually theirs. Otherwise, there would be no way to stop an attacker from making an email address with your friend's name, creating keys to go with it and impersonating your friend. That's why the free software programmers that developed email encryption created keysigning and the Web of Trust.</p>
-<p>When you sign someone's key, you are publicly saying that you trust that it does belong to them and not an impostor. People who use your public key can see the number of signatures it has. Once you've used GnuPG for a long time, you may have hundreds of signatures. The Web of Trust is the constellation of all GnuPG users, connected to each other by chains of trust expressed through signatures, into a giant Web. The more signatures a key has, and the more signatures its signers' keys have, the more trustworthy that key is.</p>
+<p>When you sign someone's key, you are publicly saying that you trust that it does belong to them and not an impostor. People who use your public key can see the number of signatures it has. Once you've used GnuPG for a long time, you may have hundreds of signatures. The Web of Trust is the constellation of all GnuPG users, connected to each other by chains of trust expressed through signatures, into a giant network. The more signatures a key has, and the more signatures its signers' keys have, the more trustworthy that key is.</p>
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+<p>People's public keys are usually identified by their key fingerprint, which is a string of digits like DD878C06E8C2BEDDD4A440D3E573346992AB3FF7 (for Adele's key). You can see the fingerprint for your public key, and other public keys saved on your computer, by going to OpenPGP → Key Management in your email program's menu, then right clicking on the key and choosing Key Properties. It's good practice to share your fingerprint wherever you share your email address, so that so that people can double-check that they have the correct public key when they download yours from a keyserver.</p>
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+<p class="notes">You may also see public keys referred to by their key ID, which is simply the last 8 digits of the fingerprint, like 92AB3FF7 for Adele. 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 are trying to communicate to verify which one to use.</p>
-<p>People's public keys are usually identified by their key ID, which is a short string of 8 digits like 92AB3FF7 (for Adele's key). You can see your key ID on the right in OpenPGP → Key Management in your email program's menu.</p>
-<p>It's good practice to share your key ID, so that so that people can double-check that they have the correct public key when they download yours from a keyserver. You may also see public keys referred to by their key fingerprint, which is a longer string of digits, like DD878C06E8C2BEDDD4A440D3E573346992AB3FF7. The key ID is just the last 8 digits of the fingerprint.</p>
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<h3><em>Important:</em> check people's identification before signing their keys</h3>
- <p>Before signing a real person's key, always make sure it actually belongs to them, and they are who they say they are. Answer honestly in the window that pops up and asks "How carefully have you verified that the key you are about to sign actually belongs to the person(s) named above?".</p>
+ <p>Before signing a real person's key, always make sure it actually belongs to them, and that they are who they say they are. Ask them to show you their ID (unless you trust them very highly) and their public key fingerprint -- not just the shorter public key ID, which could refer to another key as well. In Enigmail, answer honestly in the window that pops up and asks "How carefully have you verified that the key you are about to sign actually belongs to the person(s) named above?".</p>
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<h3>Make your public key part of your online identity</h3>
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key ID to your email signature, then compose an email to at least five of your friends, telling them you just set up GnuPG and mentioning your key ID. Link to this guide and ask them to join you. Don't forget that there's also an awesome <a href="infographic.html">infographic to share.</a></p>
+ <p> First add your
public key fingerprint to your email signature, then compose an email to at least five of your friends, telling them you just set up GnuPG and mentioning your public key fingerprint. Link to this guide and ask them to join you. Don't forget that there's also an awesome <a href="infographic.html">infographic to share.</a></p>
-<p class="notes">Start writing your key ID anywhere someone would see your email address: your social media profiles, blog, Website, or business card. (At the Free Software Foundation, we put ours on our <a href="https://fsf.org/about/staff">staff page</a>.) We need to get our culture to the point that we feel like something is missing when we see an email address without a public key ID.</p>
+<p class="notes">Start writing your public key fingerprint anywhere someone would see your email address: your social media profiles, blog, Website, or business card. (At the Free Software Foundation, we put ours on our <a href="https://fsf.org/about/staff">staff page</a>.) We need to get our culture to the point that we feel like something is missing when we see an email address without a public key fingerprint.</p>
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<h3>Switch to GNU/Linux for maximum safety</h3>
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Mac OS is a nonfree operating system, which means that no one but Apple gets to see the code it runs on. This makes running Mac OS risky for your privacy -- there's no way to know if it's spying on you.</p><p>To push back hard against surveillance, we recommend you switch to a free software operating system like GNU/Linux. Free operating systems are completely transparent, so anyone can find and remove dangerous code. Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
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Windows is a nonfree operating system, which means that no one but Apple gets to see the code it runs on. This makes running Windows risky for your privacy -- there's no way to know if it's spying on you.</p><p>To push back hard against surveillance, we recommend you switch to a free software operating system like GNU/Linux. Free operating systems are completely transparent, so anyone can find and remove dangerous code. Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
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