Online security/Indymedia skillshare

March 17, 2012 14:00

Published: February 14, 2012 21:13 by Nottingham Indymedia |

Published by group: Notts Indymedia
Tagged as: nottingham_indymedia online repression security skillshare

Places: nottingham sumac_centre

An increasing amount of activism takes place online, this can be very effective, but it also carries a number of risks and potentially leaves you vulnerable to surveillance.

On Saturday 17th March, Nottingham Indymedia are running a session at the Sumac Centre exploring how you can communicate securely online, defend your anonymity and evade state repression on the internet.

Communicating securely is everyone's business. Even if your activism is super-fluffy, you can help make the internet safer for everyone by adopting good security practices.

If only the people doing spiky things used these practices, they would attract attention just by doing so. Get into the habit of doing things securely before you really need to and you will be a thorn in the side of the surveillance state.

There will also be a chance to look at how to use the Nottingham Indymedia site to publish your own stories from the streets.

(Some of the above based on the excellent Tech Tools for Activism under a Creative Commons Atributrion Share-Alike licence.)

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