Greetings cryptoparty comrades old and new!

A few of us met back in June to discuss rebooting digital security workshops at sudo room - and oh my, I just discovered these notes in my Drafts folder >_<

AND we didn't get it together for our proposed first workshop date, August 19th.

Shall we aim to host one in October or November?

Recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty/2018/June

<3jnny

Cryptoparty Reboot - 16 June 2018

= attendees =

* jenny, lesley, bill, sierk, gabby, alexis, toast, mai

Wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty

Mailing List: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/cryptoparty

= notes =

* alexis works with techactivist.org - outreach and education for activists

* offensive-security.com - training by the makers of Kali

* bill - wary of using Tor for false assurances - eg web browsing identifiers

* bill: always going to be a "well actually" douchebag at every cryptoparty - how to deal with the know-it-all taking over the cryptoparty / making it alienating for those who most need the education

** alexis: got excellent training on that from Khalil __ (missed it) - cutting off soliloquoy and redirecting back to the convo, invite to converse after the workshop, etc

*** bill: having knowledge and skills doesn't make one able to be an educator - match technical knowledge with

** mai: best cryptoparties i've been to set expectations right at the beginning, code of conduct, "no such thing as stupid questions",

* alexis: always make sure to emphasize how using Tor/VPNs can impact your web traffic

* gabby: I've been using a VPN and it's been slowing my web browsing very significantly

** bill: There's not particularly a correlation between speed and security of VPNs. Suggests reviewing thatoneprivacysite.net to compare VPNs

* bill: i always make sure to emphasize there's no such thing as 100% secure - eg; endpoints can be hacked - tho you can continue to improve

** mai: using metaphors helps a lot -

* toast: get a list going of things people would like to see in messaging apps. EFF probably has this. brainstorming suggestions

* alexis: best to try and work with what people already use, hard to get people to adopt new things

** eg; facebook has encrypted messaging - most people don't know about it - "make conversation secret"

* bill - hushmail - big security vulnerability - can target a specific population to backdoor the service (eg by IP address) - protonmail has this same problem

== previous cryptoparties ==

* lesley: trying to do it every month was just too often. sam moved away...

* jnny: just no capacity at a certain point - to do the outreach, hold the space, get someone super infosec-savvy to be present in the event of complex problems someone brings

* gabby: outreach-teaching event one month, training trainers / working group another month. could also have just two of us host it every month

* jnny: having equal # tech/sec-savvy and people coming to learn is great, can pair people off

* bill - don't want to call it a cryptoparty as it draws the wrong people (people who already know what they're doing)

* mai: could do it more thematically, eg "Secure your mobile communications" - narrowing framing would enable us to teach better and target a more specific audience

* sierk: users teaching users, Drupal meetups, [missed this]

* bill: narrowing focus great way to bring people out

** lesley: could have different talks set up ahead of time. got me interested was looking up things, the acronyms etc

*** jenny: maybe make that a ground rule, don't abuse acronyms.

**** bill: or just state that "we'll be covering a lot of things, but everything we're talking about is in the handout

* gabby: didn't know exactly what a cryptoparty was - didn't expect

= what to learn/teach =

== web browsing ==

* orbot - tor for mobile - initiated by Guardian Project, now officially Tor Project?

** orfox - tor browser for android - Guardian Project - https://guardianproject.info/apps/orfox/

** firefox focus - app that essentially enables you to always be browsing incognito

** firefox quantum - multi container add-on - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/?src=search - create different containers for eg facebook, google, etc

* HTTPS Everywhere - download separately and then deliver it to the browser - offline signing process

== email ==

* protonmail - encrypts email in transit (still shows plantext in browser) - https://protonmail.com/

* mailvelope - add-on for GMail encryption - https://www.mailvelope.com/en

* riseup - and the canary: https://riseup.net/en/canary

== operating systems ==

* qubes - "A reasonably secure operating system" - https://www.qubes-os.org/

** like having multiple containers/Virtual Machines (VMs)

** network VM separate from application VM

* tails - https://tails.boum.org/

== VPNs ==

* can be fast and secure, slow and insecure, fast and insecure, etc;

** https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ - https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

== Clearing up Misconceptions ==

* Using Signal securely

* Vulnerabilities of PGP

* No 100% security - endpoints can be hacked

= resources to create/build =

* piratebox with software for faster downloads

* handouts:

** anonyzebra zine? (see https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty / https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/images/1/11/Anonyzebra.jpg )

** for different levels of security / threat models (eg average users,

* code of conduct

= resources for trainers =

* EFF's Security Education Companion - https://sec.eff.org/

= next digital security wkshp =

* August 19th

Jenny

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