Week 6: Private Messaging, Encrypted Email, and Metadata Hygiene
🎯 Goal Learn how to communicate securely using end-to-end encrypted messaging, GPG-encrypted email, and metadata minimization. Explore Signal, Matrix, OTR, and email tools. Understand operational privacy trade-offs. 🌱 New to this? If the command line feels like a lot, Privacy 101 walks through secure messaging with Signal in a graphical, beginner-friendly way first: Privacy 101 Week 6: Secure Messaging → 1. Secure Messaging Protocols Overview Protocol E2EE Decentralized Metadata Safe CLI Available Signal ✅ ❌ (centralized) ❌ (requires phone number) ✅ (via signal-cli) Matrix (Olm) ✅ ✅ ⚠️ (servers can log) ✅ (nheko, gomuks, etc) XMPP + OTR ✅ ✅ ✅ (self-hosted possible) ✅ (profanity, mcabber) Tox ✅ ✅ (P2P) ✅ ✅ (toxic) 2. Signal CLI Setup Install signal-cli For Debian-based distros: ...