PowerNotParanoia.md

#Power Not Paranoia ##Digital Security Skill Share ###Prepared for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

=== ##Assessing Risk ####Who/what are we protecting?
####From who are we protecting? ####What are we going to do to protect?

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##Privacy, Anonymity, Compartments ####Privacy: traditional notion that individuals engaged in a private activity should be free from interference in that activity so long as it is legal. ####Anonymity: the practice of hiding or obfuscating your identity so that observed activity can not be easily attributed to the individual.

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##Encryption ####Server to Server: good
####End to End: better

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##Why does, or does, encryption matter?

Collective safety

Avoid parallel construction

An act of resistance

An act of solidarity with people practicing secure communications

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##Secure Mobile Messaging
####Signal ####Other End-to-End Tools

• Telegram
• WhatsApp

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##What Is Metadata?
"data about data..."
Privacy International Video

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##How do these things fit together

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##Other privacy & anonymity tools
####Screen locking ####Good password practices ####Tor
####Device Encryption
####ISMI Catchers
####Secure meeting/chat

• OSTel
• OTR chat
• Jitsi
• Ricochet.im

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##Recap & Next Steps

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Hey @kmontenegro,

Thanks for creating this. One thing: Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted and actually has really bad security. See https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/678234766018088961 and https://tryingtobeawesome.com/telegram/

@kmontenegro Small thing: they're IMSI Catchers, not ISMI Catchers :-)