Cryptoparty @ ThoughtWorks

Cryptoparty: Possible Topics

  • mobile security
  • encrypt emails with PGP
  • encrypt your IMs with XMPP and OTR
  • anonymous surfing Tor
  • privacy enhancing browser plugins
  • file and hard-drive encryption with TrueCrypt hard-drive encryption with LUKS
  • password security and managers
  • Linux installation
  • Tails (safe and anonymous operating system… please bring a thumb drive if interested)
  • Pond (encrypted Tor based messaging system without meta data and spam)
  • …

Also worth a look: index of the handbook
Useful for non-journalists as well: Information Security for Journalists

Timetable

  • 7 p.m.: short intro and welcome speech, possibly followed by short lectures
  • 8 p.m. (at the latest) we’ll start the laptops, learn about the topics your interested in and install/configure the related software

Rules

  • Taking photos or filming will not be allowed. Please leave the cameras in your pockets.
  • Smoking is possible in the yard.

Contact

Please send questions to the Berlin mailinglist. Or through cryptoparty@enteig.net