Internet privacy workshop in joes garage, amsterdam

hark — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:28:53 +0000

Friday April 10th 2015, 7:30pm. Internet privacy/security workshop for everybody (so you don’t have to be a computergeek), learn about things like oa useful browser plugins, PGP/GPG (email encryption), OTR (chat encryption), Tor etc etc. Bring your computer or/and usb flashdrive!!

Privacy is not terrorism

groente — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:42:07 +0000

On Tuesday 16th December, a large police operation took place in the Spanish State. Fourteen houses and social centres were raided in Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa and Madrid; books, leaflets and IT material were seized; and eleven people were arrested and sent to the Audiència Nacional, a special court handling issues of "national interest", in Madrid. They are accused of incorporation, promotion, management and membership of a terrorist organisation.

First sessions for interference.io announced

groente — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:49:03 +0000

The Interference event that is going to take place August 15th-17th in Amsterdam is starting to take shape. Still lacking a complete program, today the first sessions were announced. Quoting from interference.io:

Ad Exchange-Publisher leaks cookies, evades blocking.

fierman — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:25:44 +0000

Ad Exchange-Publisher creative settings results in 3rd-party cookie blocking evasion and leaks.

The OpenX Ad Exchange which provides Real-Time Bidding services is cooperating closely with its publishers, as a recent observation shows. The way the domain name system is being used, browser blocking of 3rd-party cookies seems to be bypassed as a side effect.

Urgent - Saravá Group is about to lose its main server!

fierman — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:19:02 +0000

Urgent - Saravá Group is about to lose its main server!

Due to a lawsuit running in secrecy of Justice against Radio Muda, the oldest independent radio station working in Brazil, Saravá's main server is settled to be confiscated this next Monday, April 28th. Sarava is a research group that for the past 10 years have offered technological infrastructure, political thinking and autonomous and secure communication sources freely to research groups and social movements.

Call for Papers: Interference

groente — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:51:24 +0000

Interference, n:

preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out properly.
the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or cancelled.

Disconnected Filesharing hack-a-thon

webmind — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:37:23 +0000

On May the 3rd 2014, NURDSpace and PUSCII are organising a Disconnected Filesharing Hack-a-thon. Hacking on filesharing tools which do not rely on Internet connectivity.

Where

NURDSpace, Churchillweg 68, Wageningen, Netherlands

When

Saturday 2014-05-03, or Saturday the 3rd of May 14 years after the apocalypse.
Starts at 14:00 and will go on for about 6 hours.

Post Privacy Party tools

webmind — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:41:43 +0000

As we've done some Privacy Parties now, here's a list of tools we've collected so far.

Please keep in mind though, that privacy is generally a social problems and these technical-tools can only help you resist against others trying to snoop on your personal affairs. There are no 'perfect' solutions, but depending on your situation, these tools can be quite effective.

Benefit Party PUSCII & PinkNoise 5 april Scheveningen

fierman — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:33:38 +0000

Time for a benefit-party, get out of your basement, house, trailer, villa or cave and get yourself over to the Pirate Bar (Yarrr!) in Scheveningen.

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Who:: PUSCII & PinkNoise
Where:: PiratenBar, Hellingweg 127, Scheveningen
When:: Saturday, April 5 2014
What:: Benefit Party!
Why:: PUSCII & PinkNoise are broke.

Program:

14:00-20:00 Workshops and Privacy Party 18:00-21:00 Food 21:00-24:00 UBICA Cocktail Bar 21:00-04:00 Bands, Videoart & DJś with:
Queen Victoria & The Free Radicals (Ska, NL)
Harry Merry (songwriter/entertainer, NL)
Potme (hiphop, CZ)
MC Broko(breakcore, CZ)
Failotron(chip/electronic, HU) - More artists TBA DJś from various (tech)collectives

PUSCII Privacy Party, How did it go...

webmind — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:13:27 +0000

Last Saturday the 1st of March, we organised a Privacy party in the book store the Rooie Rat in Utrecht. TL;DR: It was a success. We started at 14:00, but a few people where there earlier. In total we had about 25 active participants. We started out listing the stuff people wanted to learn and who could help teach these items, we had quite a list but in the end we ended up having groups on the following topics: * Tails & Tor * GnuPG/PGP * Browser Privacy * OTR * Doxing * Linux installation