ZDNet: 13 best privacy tools for staying secure

From encrypted instant messengers to secure browsers and operating systems, these privacy-enhancing apps, extensions, and services can protect you both online and offline.

By Zack Whittaker
February 3, 2015

Often, open-source software is the most secure

The latest Edward Snowden leaks have shown that the oldest, least funded open-source technologies are still able to hold out against intrusions and exploits by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

Open-source offers one major benefit over their closed-source counterparts: The code is public and available for inspection, and therefore can’t as easily include secret backdoors for surveillance.

Here are some of those (as of yet) still secure apps, services, and technologies that can keep you safe online.

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