Every day you read about new attacks on privacy. Thanks to people like Edward Snowden we know about the NSA surveillance affair; laptop theft, attacks by spam bots and credit card sharks are everyday occurrences, and politics keeps pushing for more surveillance and deeper intrusions into privacy. It is only natural, then, that as a user you want to protect your data better against other people’s access. But what to do?
This September we are offering two workshop days to put an end to that helplessness. Under the motto “digital self-defence” we show what you as an end user can do for your privacy and that of your friends and acquaintances. That covers encryption as well as free infrastructure and anti-censorship measures.
12 September 2015 is devoted to protecting data in motion. We show how to encrypt email and how to stop other people being able to tell which pages you open or what you search for.
15:00 – 15:20: keynote 15:30 – 16:30: encrypting email and proving authenticity with GnuPG 17:30 – 18:30: a free network with Freifunk 3ländereck 19:30 – 20:30: anonymous browsing with Tor
26 September 2015 is more about encrypting data at rest, along with operational security and secure chat. It also covers what to watch out for if you want to keep your own system and your data safe and protected from third-party access.
15:00 – 16:20: encrypting storage media with VeraCrypt 17:00 – 18:00: better chatting with off-the-record encryption 19:00 – 20:20: operational security: my system belongs to me!
Taking part in any of the workshops is free of charge.
Photo CC-BY-SA David Philippi