Re: <nettime> Jamming Echelon

[megan <megan@tao.ca>]

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Hey there:

There is a good computer (and movement security) section on an animal
rights site - you can find the computer info at
http://www.enviroweb.org/ALFIS/security/computer.html

There's a few of us at tao that are looking at adapting that for the tao
help pages to some degree.....

But for now, that page i mentioned is a good site for activists to learn
(and learn to teach others) about secure connections, encryption and other
cool stuff.

Megan

"If we are to vent our riotous anger let it be before they try to murder
Mumia Abu-Jamal, not after."
   ----------------------Michael Parenti, 1995
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, 4 2 wrote:

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> 
> So if people really want to spread the message of the lack of privacy 
> online, let's do it.  Why don't we write a really simple FAQ and go from 
> there?  Then we could put it up on the web and forward it to all those 
> annoying people that send us chain letters.  We could also have people do 
> workshops in their areas, starting from bookstores/info-shops etc. and then 
> eventually in schools.  (This is probably already happening, but can always 
> be done on a larger scale.)
> 
> I think the most important thing is to explain in easily understandable 
> language why people need to be concerned about net privacy, and what they 
> can do about it.  It should include information on WHY free web-based e-mail 
> isn't secure, and information on encryption - why it's necessary and how to 
> use it.  (I *still* can't figure out how this PGP thing works, and I 
> consider myself semi computer-literate.)
> 
> If anybody already has their own FAQs, etc., I'd be more than happy to 
> compile everything...  When it's done I could send it to zines and try to 
> get other people to link to it.
> 
> If something like this already exists, let me know about that also.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 42
> 
> >I'd be more than happy to listen to suggestions on how you'd bring >the 
> >general populace of any particular country from a state of >inherent, blind 
> >trust of communication systems to a state where >privacy isn't something 
> >able to be easily breached.
> 
> "I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong."  --Vita 
> Sackville-West
> 
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