- 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 Log into Your Account
Submitted by genner on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 21:43.
To log into your RiseUp account, perform the following steps:
Step 1. Open the RiseUp home page in SSL mode https://mail.riseup.net/.
Figure 9: The RiseUp mail login page
The RiseUp mail page is divided into the login section on the left, and the News on the right. You are presented with two different webmail systems and can choose either. IMP webmail is more suited to non-English interfaces.
Step 2: Type your information into the User and Password text fields in either the Squirrelmail or IMP webmail section. Do not include the '@riseup.net' bit for the User field.
Optional step. Select your language of choice from the Language drop-down list in the IMP Webmail if necessary.
Step 3: Click: 
to display your account as follows:
Figure 10: An example of RiseUp Squirrelmail Account
Optional step. If you are primarily writing and
receiving email in a non-Latin character set, then you may wish to
specify this for the webmail account. Select 
from the top menu. The SquirrelMail options window appears.
Figure 11: The SquirrelMail Options
Step 4: Display Preferences
In the following screen, locate the Language drop-down menu and select the character set for your email messages.
This option will help with determining the correct encoding for the email messages you send and receive.
3.1 How to Use the Virtual Keyboard
If you are using a computer in public setting (an Internet café, community centre or library for instance), you can enter your password by using the Virtual Keyboard. It offers your system another layer of protection from key-logger programs. Key-logger programs are designed to monitor a user's physical key strokes to figure out passwords, user names and other vital information. Virtual keyboards bypass this vulnerability allowing the user to input a password using the mouse.
To use the RiseUp Virtual Keyboard, perform the following steps:
Step 1. Open the RiseUp home page in SSL mode https://mail.riseup.net/.
Step 2: Type your information into the User: text field.
Step 3. Click: 
to activate the RiseUp Virtual Keyboard as follows:
Figure 12: The RiseUp Virtual Keyboard
Step 4. Click your mouse on the different keys that make up your password.