Did you ever secretly wished to handle email, you know, the nerdy way? No GUI, no mouse, just command line tools? Well, then prick your ears. In this post I will explain the basic setup to use Mutt with GPG encryption, multiple IMAP accounts, and postfix for sending outgoing email. »
Be it malicious crackers, evil governments, or all-devouring US companies, we have to protect our data from their greedy grasps. But in the beginning it seems to be such a hard task. There are tons of tools and one does neither want to spend several weeks on reading documentation nor to use insecure ones. To alleviate this pain, I will give a short introduction by presenting four simple but essential tools: dm-crypt/LUKS for hard disk encryption, GnuPG for encrypting individual files, emails etc., borg to securely and efficiently backup your data, and pass to manage and store your passwords. »