- How-To Booklet
- 1. How to protect your computer from malware and hackers
- 2. How to protect your information from physical threats
- 3. How to create and maintain secure passwords
- 4. How to protect the sensitive files on your computer
- 5. How to recover from information loss
- 6. How to destroy sensitive information
- 7. How to keep your Internet communication private
- 8. How to remain anonymous and bypass censorship on the Internet
- Glossary
- Hands-On Guides
- Avast - anti-virus
- Spybot - anti-spyware
- Comodo - firewall
- KeePass - secure password storage
- TrueCrypt - secure file storage
- Cobian - backup
- Undelete Plus - file recovery
- Eraser - secure file removal
- CCleaner - temporary file removal
- Riseup - secure email service
- Pidgin + OTR - secure instant messaging
- VaultletSuite - secure mail client
- Thunderbird + Enigmail - secure mail client
- Firefox - Web browser
- Tor - anonymity and circumvention
- portable security
How to Change Your Account Settings
Submitted by genner on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 22:03.
RiseUp lets you modify different settings for your account. You can specify the size of your email box, change your account name and address, add aliases and much more. You can also create invite codes to help your friends and colleagues register their own RiseUp account.
Step 1. Open the RiseUp account settings page: https://user.riseup.net/
Figure 12: The user.riseup.net page
Step 2. Type your account login details into the Username and Password fields.
Step 3. Click: 
to activate the following screen:
Figure 13: The riseup.net user control page
4.1 The My Settings tab
The My Settings page displays all the information that you originally entered in Section 2.1 The Account information form.
Step 1. Click: 
to activate the following screen:
Figure 14: The Settings page
On this screen you can change your user name. This will also change your email address. The new user name should also be unique. Here you can also change any other account details such as the alternative email, password and so on.
Step 1. Type in your new information, then click: 
to display this message:
Figure 15: Successfully updated your changes
4.2 The Email settings page
The Email settings page lets you modify or view information related to email storage. You can even set the 'quota' or amount of space reserved for your webmail account on a RiseUp server.
Step 1. Click: 
to activate the following screen:
Figure 16: The Email settings page
Step 2. Enter an appropriate number into the Quota text field. Note that your account is limited in size to a maximum of 47 megabytes. This is considered enough for important email communication. Should you wish to be using an email account to send and receive a number of large attachments, RiseUp may not be the optimal choice for you.
You can also create aliases for your account on this page. An alias is like a nickname for your account. Whilst the main account will remain as before, people are able to send email to your alias address as well.
Figure 16: Aliases
For example: tthetester@riseup.net account now has two aliases. Email sent to verygoodtester@riseup.net and securitytester@riseup.net will be forwarded to the main account. This maybe a useful practice in order to keep your real account address private.
4.3 The Invites page
The Invites page lets you generate invite codes that are used to invite your friends and colleagues to join RiseUp. Remember that each new account needs an invite code from two different users. You can generate as many invite codes as you wish.
Step 1. Click: 
to activate the following screen:
Figure 18: The Invites page
Step 2. Click: 
to generate invite codes as follows:
Figure 19: An example of generated invite codes
Step 3. Click: 
Pass this invite code to the person wishing to register an account
with RiseUp.
To exit the User panel:
Step 4. Click: 