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= 12/2/2014 Linux Class =

Stephen Mahood teaches us about Free Software for mobile devices.

[https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] is a catalog of free software that can be installed on Android
phones.

The [https://guardianproject.info/ Guardian Project] develops a set of
security and privacy oriented applications for Android. Some of these
applications can be deployed via F-droid; a few have to be downloaded
directly.

Facebook makes a chat application, and they track all messages you
send via their chat application.
[https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ Chat secure] is a
replacement for facebook chat, which allows you to encrypt chat
communications. It's XMPP with OTR (off the record messaging). Chat
Secure also supports cleartext (unencrypted) chat messaging.

[https://guardianproject.info/apps/obscuracam/ ObscuraCam] is a photo
and video application. When you take a photo (or video) with your
phone, your phone typically adds a lot of metadata to the image. This
can even include the GPS coordinates of where the image was taken.
ObscuraCam erases this metadata. It also allows you to selectively
blur portions of the photo.

[https://sailfishos.org/ Sailfish] is a mostly-free operating system
for mobile phones. It's Debian-based, rather than Android-based.
[http://jolla.com Jolla] is the official phone for Sailfish OS.

[https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ Orbot] is a Tor proxy for
Android. Orbot runs a private tor relay on your phone, and changes the
phone's network settings so that network traffic is proxied through
Tor. [https://guardianproject.info/apps/orweb/ OrWeb] is a Tor browser
for Android.

[https://guardianproject.info/apps/ostel/ Ostel] is an app for
encrypted voice communications. It's generally used for VoIP over
wireless.

Panic is an android app that installs a `panic button'. The panic
button erases all of the sensitive information on your phone.

[http://www.replicant.us/ Replicant] is a free (as in libre) version
of the Android operating system. It's well developed, but doesn't
work with all devices (it works with the devices that replicant
developers have access to). Replicant removes many of the "phone home
to Google" pieces that come with the standard Android distribution.

[http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ Cyanogen mod] is another free version of
Android. It allows you to root your phone, and tweak many aspects of
the operating system. Cyanogen mod also allows you to remove some
carrier-specific applications from the device.

[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/ Firefox OS] is
another free operating system for mobile devices.

[http://fbreader.org/ FB Reader] is a free software epub reader. It
runs on Android and GNU/Linux.

At the end of the class, Dana passed around two Linux-oriented
magazines: [http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/ Linux Pro] and
[http://www.linuxvoice.com/ Linux Voice]. Both are British
publications, and have a lot of useful how-to information. Linux Voice
donates 50% of their profits to the free software community.

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