Security and source protection workshop for journalists in Vilnius (April 29th-30th)

Nei­ther of us believes in ready-made secu­ri­ty recipes (you know, the ”Use Sig­nal. Use Tor” mantra), so we’ll start with the basic dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy – how the net­works work, what a net­work can see, how to avoid them see­ing you, what is cryp­tog­ra­phy, mal­ware, phish­ing, etc. Then we’ll move for­ward to the prac­ti­cal side – we’ll play games, mod­el sit­u­a­tions, learn to use dif­fer­ent tools. Most impor­tant­ly, the par­tic­i­pants will get an under­stand­ing of the threats they can face and con­fi­dence to decide on the right tools to use.

The event is in Eng­lish and for reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants only (we’ll have 10–20 places avail­able). If you’re inter­est­ed, please send us (opit@technarium.lt, PGP:B89F16B5) your name and a cou­ple of sen­tences of why such train­ing might be mean­ing­ful for the work you’re doing.

The train­ing is free of charge, giv­en on a vol­un­tary basis. On the oth­er hand, if you or your organ­i­sa­tion can con­tribute and help cov­er the trav­el costs/local expens­es, any amount would be real­ly appre­ci­at­ed.

More info:

Quinn Nor­ton is a writer who likes to hang out in the dead end alleys
and rough neigh­bor­hood of the Inter­net, where bad things can hap­pen to
defense­less lit­tle pack­ets.

They are also places were new free­doms and poet­ries are born, and run
riot over the net­work. She start­ed study­ing hack­ers in 1995, after a
wast­ed youth of Usenet and BBS­ing.

These days, Quinn is a jour­nal­ist, pub­lished in Wired, The Atlantic,
Max­i­mum PC, and more. She cov­ers sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, copy­right law,
robot­ics, body mod­i­fi­ca­tion, and med­i­cine, but no mat­ter how many times
she tries to leave, she always comes back to hack­ers.

Select­ed writ­ings and talks by Quinn Nor­ton:

https://medium.com/message/seeing-like-a-network-114c5a13fe0d#.vlxsooey4
https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/the-problem-with-slack-854adeef9154
https://backchannel.com/love-in-the-time-of-cryptography-dd3a74193ffb
https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/teen-vogue-on-message-security-2a46e8d41801

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/a‑eulogy-for-occupy/
https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/source-protection-in-2017-a-starter-guide-d44b20f2af2d
https://medium.com/quinn-norton
https://www.wired.com/author/quinnnorton/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voA7Uz7uABE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjrbK3DyRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE6aH_y7NU