1. Tech Security for Activists ● Dimi (Climate Action Camp / CJA Belgium) ● ”Tech Tools For Activists” online book: http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/ ● Browsing the Internet Anonymously ● Organising Online ● Securing your email ● Hiding Stuff on your Computer ● Password security ● Be careful, no system is fool proof !!!

2. How the internet works

3. Secure electronic communication overview

4. Browsing the Internet Anonymously ● HTTPS (SSL, install cacert.org root certificate) ● Googlesharing (Firefox plugin http://www.googlesharing.net) ● Scroogle (https://ssl.scroogle.org/) ● Public wifi hotspot (check for CCTV) ● Pay-as-you-go 3G adapter (bought with cash, check for CCTV) ● Firefox ● Linux live CD ● TOR (The Onion Router, anonymity network)

5. Tor anonymity network

8. Organising Online ● Ways people Organise Online ● Social Networking Sites ● Instant Messaging and Twitter ● Email and Email lists ● Secure tools ● Crabgrass, Friendika, Diaspora ● IRC and Identi.ca ● Activist mail and mailing lists hosting (weakest link) ● aktivix.org, riseup.net, psand.net

9. Securing your email ● Use BCC rather than To or CC ● Don't use a commercial webmail provider (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, …) ● Log of your mails / Termination of your account ● Activist mail hosting: Riseup, Aktivix ● Securing your own email with encryption ● GPG software ● Thunderbird + Enigmail plugin

10. How encryption works

11. Hiding Stuff on your Computer ● Physical hiding ● USB stick, memory card, hard drive ● Encryption ● Linux or TrueCrypt ● Also encrypt pagefile / swap ! ● Misdirection / obscuring / steganography ● Ubuntu: Encrypted Private Directory ● TrueCrypt ● Really deleting your files: shred program ● No system is fool-proof !

12. Password security ● At least 12-character ● Combination of: ● upper case letters ● lower case letters ● symbols ● digits ● NOT: ● same password everywhere ● real words (as in dictionary) ● personal info (name, birthday, etc.)

13. Free as in Freedom ● Ubuntu (live cd): http://www.ubuntu.com/ ● Browser: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ ● E-mail client: Thunderbird + Enigmail plugin: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/71/ ● Tor Onion Router: http://www.torproject.org/ ● GPG encryption: http://www.gnupg.org/ ● Crabgrass: https://we.riseup.net/ ● E-mail hosting: https://mail.riseup.net/

14. Contact ● https://we.riseup.net/dimi https://we.riseup.net/dimi ● high@riseup.net

15. Workshop: installing ● Ubuntu ● Mozilla Thunderbird ● GPG ● Enigmail Thunderbird plugin ● TOR ● Scroogle Firefox plugin ● GoogleSharing Firefox plugin ● TrueCrypt ● Easy Crypt

16. Workshop: setup ● Crabgrass account: we.riseup.net ● E-mail address: mail.riseup.net ● Encrypted home folder ● Thunderbird + enigmail ● TOR ● Easy Crypt