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The alarmingly high – and still increasing – levels of corporate and government surveillance makes data privacy skills and tools vital. Yet they are little use if our friends, lovers, comrades and communities aren’t able to use them as well. This is a friendly and practical session on how to use and share online safety tools. We’ll start from an idea of ‘Cryptodining’, that explores not just the how-tos of information security, but consider the ways we can use skills – such as dining, cooking, hosting, crafting, and socialising – to share knowledge and tools for keeping ourselves safe. The aim is that whoever you are and whatever you do and know, you are able to take an active role in maintaining your own security online.
Starting with the very basics, we will work together to secure our technology and protect our privacy. Bring a pen and paper or, even better, bring your devices. Everyone welcome!
The event will include:
- an introduction to online self defence by Lewis from the Anarchist Federation.
- exploration of a variety of net security and encryption tools.
- discussion and activities on how we can share this knowledge outside of normative tech spaces.
Kids are welcome! We try to make our activities accessible to all ages and abilities as far as we can, and are happy to provide alternative things to do if appropriate. Common House may be accessible for some wheelchair users but unfortunately the toilet isn’t yet. More details are here: Accessibility Information.
About the organisers
Autonomous Tech Fetish probes how digital technology is fetishised and how it can be re-configured to different needs and desires. We work with activists to affirm their technological autonomy and are committed to co-education exploring the pitfalls and potentials of technologies without assumptions.
The 5D Server Workshop is a roving eye analysing our digital lives from a non-normative, non-capitalist, non-western perspective, looking at the work of radical thinkers and community organisers to re-wire the way we think about, use and produce technology to affect the world around us.
AFed fights for a world without leaders, where power is shared equally amongst communities and people are free to reach their full potential. We do this by supporting working class resistance to oppression and by organising alongside our workmates and neighbours.
