Privacy Software Workshop Series

Projects
Participants	Becha, Phicoh
Skills
Status	Active
Niche	Software
Purpose	World domination

Goal

The goal is to

• Increase the understanding of this kind of software within techinc
• To inform other people on what to install, how to configure it, etc. And also help people install this kind of software on their own devices
• Run some services at techinc (for members, but maybe also for the community at large). For example the federated social media.

The idea is to keep it practical and have every once in a while a presentation, for example about politics, or theoretical aspects.

Make tutorials?

Topics

• https://tails.boum.org/ - a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD or a USB stick. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.

• pond https://pond.imperialviolet.org/

• retroshare http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

• Sovereign is a set of Ansible playbooks that you can use to build and maintain your own personal cloud (I know I know). It’s based entirely on open source software, so you’re in control. https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

• http://youbroketheinternet.org

e-Mail

• mailPile http://www.mailpile.is/
• https://lwn.net/Articles/464137/ STEED: End-to-end email encryption
• Pretty Good Privacy - Privacy:PGP

Backup

• Backup and share files (e.g. with BTSync or ownCloud i.s.o. Dropbox)
• SparkleShare - http://sparkleshare.org/
• EncFS with Dropbox - http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-linux-and-windows-with-encfs/
• Bacula with client encrypted data.

HW

• FreedomBox
• http://secushare.org/
•  ?? vbox (http://virtualbox.org/)
• http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY

• http://freedombone.uk.to/ (with step by step tutorial )
  • "FreedomBone is a personal home communications server based upon the BeagleBone Black hardware. It's small and cheap and will

allow you to use email, have your own web site and do social networking in a federated way without needing to rely upon any intermediary companies other than your ISP."

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Closetbox

• half-baked: hive box: http://hivenetworks.net/tiki-index.php?page=NetworkConcept&structure=Using

Tunnels

• How to setup up a VPN/SSH tunnel - Privacy:SSH

Federated Social Media

• pump-io http://opensource.com/life/13/7/pump-io
• http://sneer.me
• diaspora - https://joindiaspora.com/ and POD installation guide
• lorea
• trsst: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-o/description
• "The IRC Paradigm: An Alternative Approach for Alternative Social Networks" File:IRC_Alternative_Approach_Stijn_Peeters_INC_2013.pdf
• Distributed social networking software comparison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking

Mesh networks

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/MeshNet

Links

Organisations

• Bits of Freedom has created a Internet-vrijheid toolbox (in Dutch)
• Crypto party - http://www.cryptoparty.in/
• https://www.openitp.org/
• IETF: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00

Misc

• Password management (e.g. with KeePass)
• Alternatives for commonly used software and services - https://prism-break.org/
• https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/encryption-works
• https://securityinabox.org

• IAB draft on blocking & filtering http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-filtering-considerations-04

• list of Tools for Activists http://nptech.io/

• Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
  • lots of interesting papers; available via this link: https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/report.html

Media

• Movie: Terms and Conditions May Apply http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/terms-and-conditions-a-movie-about-privacy-policies-youll-actually-want-to-watch/

• Video of the talks on 1. August 2013 in Berlin: https://gnunet.org/internetistschuld

Discussion forums

• alternative social media mailing list: unlike-us mailing list

unlike-us@listcultures.org http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org

Theory

• https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/encryption-works

Events

• Big Brother Award!! On 29.8. http://big-brother-awards.online-inschrijven.nl/

• https://www.openitp.org/openitp/circumvention-tech-summit.html

• http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/

• TA3M https://wiki.openitp.org/doku.php?id=events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays

Related projects by TechInc

• (mp)OTR
• ChaosVPN
• Closetbox
• DEFEMBER
• MyLaptop
• Piratebox
• Privacy Software Workshop Series
• SpaceFED

Related pages:

Privacy:PGP

How to teach

• http://gandre.ws/blog/blog/2014/01/01/educators-toolbox-for-security-trainers/

Events

• Privacy Workshop Series II: Meeting I (9 September 2014)
• Privacy Workshop Series II: Meeting II (27 September 2014)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-08-15 (15 August 2013)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-09-05 (5 September 2013)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-09-19 (19 September 2013)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-10-03 (3 October 2013)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-10-17 (17 October 2013)
• Privacy:workshop:2013-10-31 (31 October 2013)
• Sbox-hackathon-01 (3 October 2014)
• TAILS workshop (12 June 2014)