How to Switch to Free Software: Part 1. Email & Texting

The key to regaining security and control of the internet is switching to free software equivalents to proprietary/corporate software for communicating – among many uses. This first of two workshops will focus on communications using email and texting software. Micky Metts of Boston’s Agaric Cooperative maintains that the moderate inconvenience of switching is worth the privacy of strong encryption and the freedom of a new world of user-controlled communications and organizing.