This project is on the very early stages of development. On same rare occasions it might tele-transport your computer to event horizon. Also, this version only supports the English language, sorry :(
Email is not a very private method of communication.
There has been several attempts to make email more secure such as using end-to-end encryption. Some technologies, such as GPG do provide great security. But this and other methods of encryption have failed to gather traction. Without being popular, the system is not very effective since it requires all parties involved in communication to have a special setup. Also, many of the current solutions are hard to setup and configure for many users. Nothing to Hide tries a radically different approach to securing email.
Nothing to Hide attempts to make email more secure by making messages more vague, in such a way that the intended recipient can still understand the message but snoopers can't. In it's current form it only available as Google Chrome and Chromium add-on for Gmail. A Firefox version of the add-on is on the works.
First install our Chrome extension. Also, you need the following installed:
- Java (Only tested with Java 7 and higher)
- Python (Only tested with Python 2.7.x and higher)
- pip (Only tested with 1.4.x and higher) How to install pip on
Windows and Mac OS X. Ubuntu users run
sudo apt-get install python-pip
.
The automated method has only been tested in GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. It should work for other Unix operating systems. Windows users have to use the manual method.
If you're using curl
type the following command:
curl -L https://raw.github.com/climatewarrior/nothing-to-hide/master/utils/installer.sh | bash
If you're using wget
type:
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/climatewarrior/nothing-to-hide/master/utils/installer.sh -O - | bash
- Download the latest Stanford NER
- Download the latest Stanford Postagger
- Get extra NTLK dependencies
python -m nltk.downloader punkt
- Install Flask and Pyner
pip install flask ner
- Get the latest version of our code
- Uncompress Stanford NER and Stanford Postagger into the
anstractor-server
directory within Nothing to Hide. - See run.sh to how to start your servers manually.
cd
to the install directory, the default one is~/nothing-to-hide
.- Start the server with:
bash utils/run.sh
. - Open Chrome or Chromium and open your Gmail account.
- Write your email messages as you normally would.
- Before sending them hit the VAGUE-IFY button below the compose button.
- Revise your messages. You can click on change words to bring them to their original form.
- When you are happy with your changes click Accept on the compose window.
- Shutdown the server whenever you wish or just leave it running in the background.