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Candace's Crypto-training Docs

Notes from trainings giving at Eybeam (12/3/16), Free School/Escuelita Libre (1/14/17), Art is Labor (4/23/2017), and BUFU's digital security skillshare (7/11/2017)

Secure Communnications

SMS and Messaging

• Signal home: https://whispersystems.org/
• How to install Signal on Android: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-signal-android
• How to install Signal on iOS: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-signal-ios
• Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-secure-imessage-really-is/
• How to invite friends to Signal: https://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/214622088-How-can-I-invite-friends-to-join-Signal-
• Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/

Email

• Sony hack emails (search for common words like "coffee"—their inboxes look just like your own): https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails
• Can email ever be secure? http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/can-email-ever-be-secure/
• Protonmail: https://protonmail.com/
• RiseUp: https://riseup.net/en/email (Info about the canary situation: http://www.zdnet.com/article/encrypted-email-provider-riseup-misses-warrant-canary-deadline/)
• MayFirst/PeopleLink: https://mayfirst.org/en/index.html
• What is PGP? http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-pgp.htm
• Matt Mitchell's PGP guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zn62XjVRkt6_nvtgUvWO4WLo4VTQ3WQ98WKc5gkPb8w/edit
• Example Keybase profile: https://keybase.io/teacherc (Email me for an invite)
• PGP example: http://atom.smasher.org/pgp/

Alternatives to Surveillance Capitalism

• IBM and the Holocaust: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html
• Of 8 tech companies, only Twitter says it would refuse to help Trump build a Muslim registry: https://theintercept.com/2016/12/02/of-8-tech-companies-only-twitter-says-it-would-refuse-to-help-build-muslim-registry-for-trump/
• Choosing a VPN: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
• Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org/
• DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/
• OwnCloud: https://owncloud.org
• Open Office: https://www.openoffice.org/
• Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR): https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
• Adium: https://adium.im/
• Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/
• KeePass: http://keepass.info/
• Signal Desktop: https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/

Threat Modeling

• An Introduction to Threat Modeling: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/introduction-threat-modeling
• Digital Security Tips for Protesters: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/digital-security-tips-for-protesters
• Attending Protests (United States): https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protests-united-states
• Security for the High-Risk User: https://www.johnscottrailton.com/security-for-the-high-risk-user/

Basic Security Steps

• Encrypt an Android Device in 5 Steps: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2689371/opensource-subnet/how-to-encrypt-an-android-device-in-5-steps.html
• Encrypt your Laptop Like You Mean It: https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/
• Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit: https://www.johnscottrailton.com/jsrs-digital-security-low-hanging-fruit/
• Virus Total (check for malicious links and files): https://www.virustotal.com/
• Passphrases that you can memorise (but even the NSA can't guess): https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/
• How to use KeePassX: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-keepassx
• Choosing the VPN that is right for you: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you

Additional Resources

• A 70-Day Web Security Action Plan for Artists and Activists Under Siege: https://medium.com/@TeacherC/90dayactionplan-ff86b1de6acb#.f1sno583g
• Black #infosec matters: http://laundromatproject.org/candace-williams-june-2017/
• Link to original Eyebeam Secure and Resist CryptoParty event page: http://eyebeam.org/events/secure-resist/
• Link to Anti-Trump Free School/Escuelita Libre Anti-Trump event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/374328022945184/
• Quartz coverage: https://qz.com/873922/easy-encryption-methods-how-to-improve-your-online-security-with-encryption-tips-from-a-cryptoparty/
• Link to Art is Labor event page: https://knockdown.center/event/g-a-p-x-mami-present-art-is-labor-a-day-of-creative-advocacy-and-critical-imagination/