In the Enigma’s own words:

“Enigma is using groundbreaking privacy technologies to build the first platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications.”  

“A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private.”

Key contact points for Enigma:

• Enigma
• @EnigmaMPC
• Enigma Protocol
• Enigma Test-net
• Enigma blog
• Research Papers
  • Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data
  • Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy
• Catalyst – Catalyst is the world’s leading platform for data-driven cryptoasset trading and investment.

Some of the key components that Enigma is offering:

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In an earlier post, we wrote about the resources from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other organization (e.g., Princeton, Stanford, Ghostery, Mozilla and others) that you may find useful in helping to protect your online privacy when you use the internet.

In the internet of today, online privacy and the control of identity, security and privacy are hard to come by. Some solutions to the online privacy problems are taking shape today.

And, it does not hurt to also use some of the resources shown below to further help you protect your online privacy. Remember, if you do not like the online privacy practices of the company, service or application you are using, you can always stop using it.

We are currently trying out some these tools (look at the top right corner of the screenshots and you can see some of the icons in use – e.g. ghostery…) and have enjoyed using them and the information each provides. The more information we can obtain (and control) on what is going on behind the scenes with the websites we visit and the information each is trying to get from us, the better off we think we are.

One of the tools from EFF – Surveillance Self-Defense – is highlighted below with a screenshot and a brief overview for your review.  We hope you find this information helpful.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

• Website
• Twitter

EFF – Surveillance Self-Defense: Tools, Tips and To-dos for safer online communications

The guide is to be used to help you protect yourself from online spying.  We have provided some additional screenshots from the SSD guide for your review.  We hope you find this information helpful.

Who is the guide for?

What is this guide meant to do?

Popular guides

Index to SSD – many other tools and articles from encryption, phishing, passwords and many other resources from EFF.  To learn more about protecting yourself while online, go check out some of these resources from EFF.

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In the internet of today, online privacy and the control of identity, security and privacy are hard to come by.  Some solutions to the online privacy problems are taking shape today.  The rise of decentralized networks and ecosystems like the one that Blockstack is building may make a big difference in helping you protect your online privacy.  And, it does not hurt to also use some of the resources shown below to further help you protect your online privacy.  Remember, if you do not like the online privacy practices of the company, service or application you are using, you can always stop using it.

We are currently trying out some these tools (look at the top right corner of the screenshots and you can see some of the icons in use – e.g. ghostery…) and have enjoyed using them and the information each provides.  The more information we can obtain (and control) on what is going on behind the scenes with the websites we visit and the information each is trying to get from us, the better off we think we are. 

Some of the tools are highlighted below with a screenshot and a brief overview for your review.  We hope you find this information helpful.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

• Website
• Twitter

Tools and Resources – Home page

EFF Tools and Articles

EFF – Panopticlick

a tool to help in the browser tracking area

EFF – certbot

a tool used to automatically enable HTTPS on your website (helps provide additionally security with website identification (is this really the correct site)

EFF – Surveillance Self-Defense: Tools, Tips and To-dos for safer online communications

EFF – Privacy Badger

a tool to help block spying ads and invisible trackers

EFF – HTTPS://everywhere

a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.

Duck Duck Go

a search engine that does not track you.

Website

Twitter

Princeton’s WebTap – Web Transparency & Accountability research center looking into privacy practices

Website

Twitter

Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society

Website

Twitter

Firefox – Facebook container Extension

a tool to help Firefox users have more control over their data

Website

Twitter

Ghostery

a tool that helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data.

Website

Twitter

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The grid above shows the inter-connected nodes or computers connecting to each other to form the decentralized internet network/grid to send/receive information or data in the early 1970’s.  The images below show how computers talk to one another (via the layer or protocol stack and packets). (See – “How The Internet Works?” – published on Stanford University’s website.)

TWO COMPUTERS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET

PROTOCOL STACKS AND PACKETS

Today, the modern internet (some 20+ years old from the introduction of “www”) is far more complex in its size and implementation.  Presently, some parts of the internet are decentralized (hardware, IP and TCP) while the application layer (stack) – in particular, has become more and more centralized (e.g., more data controlled by fewer and fewer companies – think social media, search, devices, online commerce, walled-gardens…). The current system with all of the good things is not completely fulfilling its original vision – full decentralization (i.e., we should own our data…). And, apparently, some other people and companies believe the same thing.

One company in particular – BlockStack, and the people involved with Blockstack – its team, its investors, its open source community of developers, its users and its open support community – appear to believe in a fully decentralized internet (read the Blockstack documents e.g., white paper…).

Basically, it appears that Blockstack wants to re-decentralize the internet, in particular – the application layer (stack) of the internet (e.g., see – Blockstack and its documents e.g., white paper…). Blockstack’s team and others, are working tirelessly to bring us new tools, infrastructure and applications – with a tie-in to the distributed ledger or blockchain.  And with these new tools, Blockstack enables the user to own his/her/its data and maintain and protect his/her/its privacy and security (e.g., encrypted decentralized storage, authentication & identity).  How is Blockstack doing this?  Well, not to go to far into the stack, Blockstack is developing key tools and infrastructure so that software developers and programmers (coders) can build single-page applications (dApps – (e.g., in javascript) in which the user controls not only his/her identity & authentication (e.g., think encrypted identification) but is also in control where and how his/her information (data) is stored on the decentralized internet.

So one might envision – one universal form of encrypted identification that is unique to the user that allows the user to securely participate in a decentralized internet and control his/her data that is generated from using the decentralized internet (e.g., imagine an internet with no middlemen, no passwords, and no massive centralized data repositories to breach).

Just imagine, if you have control (e.g., identity, data, storage and it is secure) and not the centralized companies, the possibilities appear to go on and on…  And, just like the early days of the network/internet (see above image from 1973), Blockstack is at the early stage of building the re-decentralized internet.

Please go see for yourself – visit Blockstack – and visit here again for updates and information on, among other things, Blockstack’s vision for the re-decentralization of the internet and the stack.

Here is a screenshot of Blockstack’s home page at www.blockstack.org.

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

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^* Licklider 1960’s

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