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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.

Why

Everything gets more and more connected, everything becomes part of the Internet. More and more tools also start depending on having Internet on being connected, making surveillance easier, but also excluding those who are not or do not want to be always connected. Disconnected services bring things back closer to home, closer to the physical spaces. As any transfer require the coverage of physical distance with slower speeds than those of electrons, the transfers become less predictable, harder to monitor but also more personal and linked to your physical surroundings.

What

Hack-a-thon where people will work on projects surrounding filesharing without internet. Projects such as:

PirateBox
Forban
Occupy-Here
Rhizome
RiotNAS
ZeroMQ
DeadDrop
...?

Related resources:

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.

Browser Privacy Tools

Suggested browsers

- Firefox
- Iceweasel
- Tor-browserbundle

Firefox Add-Ons which are helpful

- Request Policy (Prevents contacting sites which you're not visiting, whitelisting) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy
- Disconnect.me (Prevents trackers from being loaded on websites, blacklisting) https://disconnect.me/
- Ghostery (Can block trackers, but leaves them on by default): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery
- QuickJava (easy button to enable/disable javascript, java, flash, silverlight on sites): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickjava/
- NoScript (whitelist/blacklist javascript, java, flash for certain sites): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscrip
- Adblock Edge (Blocks advertisements): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge
- HttpsEverywhere (use https/SSL whenever it's available): https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
- BetterPrivacy (Throw away cookies after using, all of them): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy

Search Engines

- Ixquick / https://ixquick.com
- Duckduckgo / https://duckduckgo.com / http://duckduckhack.com/
- Metager / https://metager.de/en/

Toolboxes

Privacy toolsbox on a USB-Stick: https://tails.boum.org/
Run a Linux enviroment from a USB-Stick where everything is routed through tor and with every by default set to aid your privacy.

Privacy in Communication

OTR (Off The Record)

system to sent encrypted instant messages
+ Pidgin: https://pidgin.im/
+ Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/ (linux, windows, mac, android)

PGP/GPG Pretty Good Privacy

system to send encrypted mail and create digital signatures
+ Enigmail (GPG Addon for Thunderbird): https://enigmail.net/home/index.php
+ KGPG (KDE/Kubuntu GPG interface): http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg/
+ Cryptophane (windows): http://code.google.com/p/cryptophane/

Privacy Apps for Android

Less google on your android

- Replicant (fully opensource android adaptation): http://www.replicant.us/
- Cyanogenmod (mostly opensource, doesn't need google-play etc): http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
- Alternative android market with all opensource tools (add the guardianproject repository): https://f-droid.org/
- More on hardening android: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-se...

File Sharing Stuff

- Git-Annex / https://git-annex.branchable.com/Android/
- Seafile / http://www.seafile.com/en/download/ | https://github.com/haiwen/seadroid
- Tahoe-Lafs / https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs https://github.com/ctrlaltdel/TahoeLAFS-android
- Sparkleshare / http://sparkleshare.org/

Taking Photos

- ObscuraCam (hides faces and encrypts) / https://guardianproject.info/apps/obscuracam/
- InformaCam (keeps all metadata and important information) / https://guardianproject.info/apps/informacam/

Encrypted Instant messaging

(use with orbot to anonymise)
- Encrypted Instant Messaging: chatsecure / https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ (XMPP/Jabber + OTR)
- Cryptocat (iPhone/Android in development) https://crypto.cat/

General resources

- Guardian Project (makes good apps for activists): https://guardianproject.info/apps/

More information

- https://securityinabox.org/ Security in a Box by the Tactical Technology Collective
- https://ssd.eff.org/ Surveillance Self-Defense by the EFF

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 Groups contained about 5 to 6 participants and where fairly interactive. There where about 2 rounds of groups since there was some overlap of interest and some people worked on their own stuff or helped people on an individual basis. At ca. 17:00 all groups where about done and at 18:00 we all left as the shop closed. Considering the success we are definitely planning another event, but in the mean time, keep an eye on this blog for announcements.

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Disconnected Filesharing hack-a-thon

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Post Privacy Party tools

Browser Privacy Tools

Suggested browsers

Firefox Add-Ons which are helpful

Search Engines

Toolboxes

Privacy in Communication

OTR (Off The Record)

PGP/GPG Pretty Good Privacy

Privacy Apps for Android

Less google on your android

File Sharing Stuff

Taking Photos

Hiding informations

Encrypted Communications

Anoymised Communications

Encrypted Instant messaging

General resources

More information

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PUSCII Privacy Party, How did it go...

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