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Informed Digital Security:
Best practices to avoid being targeted or trolled for promoting your beliefs, convictions, and stances.
Join us Weds 11/13/24, 6:30-8:30PM in Oakland (RSVP for location) for a workshop that will cover a range of topics including:
* Basic digital security practices
* Comparison of browsers like duckduckgo, tor (the onion router)
* More secure map websites/apps
* Limitations of encrypted messaging apps like signal
* Scrubbing your personal information from the internet
* Making explicit agreements on group communication standards
* Consent based practices on what people are comfortable with communicating/sharing via text, email, signal, etc.
* Internal file sharing and storage thats secure for confidential info
About the presenters:
Sam has been practicing as an open source intelligence (OSINT) investigator, digital security researcher, and privacy advocate to aid in human rights and social justice organizations for more than 10 years. Previously he has worked as Research Director at Equality Labs, Convocation Research+Design, and Black Core Security. He focuses on combating violent extremism, dis/misinformation campaigns, and cultural manipulation. Sam uses his broad knowledge about global extremism, as well as his skills in OSINT, and deep understanding of digital security to better serve marginalized and vulnerable communities, movement partners, thought leaders, and collaborators. When he is not conducting research, he is sharpening his digital security skills, expanding digital privacy, analyzing state/non-state/private surveillance capabilities, as well as leading training sessions on general digital security, opposition research, OSINT, and more. Sam’s work has been directly used by outlets like ProPublica, Political Research Associates, Right Wing Watch, and many other mainstream media sources.
Jasmine S. (she/her) is a researcher, designer, and community organizer based in Oakland, CA on unceded Huichin Ohlone territory. She worked for three years as a junior digital security researcher at Equality Labs creating guides and reports for social justice-oriented clients facing harassment or disinformation online. Her areas of focus include survivors of domestic violence, reproductive justice, state surveillance, and right-wing extremist rhetoric targeting Black, Indigenous, Jewish, Muslim, and gender-based social movements/organizations. Some of her research has supported pivotal reports on Islamophobic and caste-based campaigns of harassment facing South Asian communities, and her team’s insight was crucial in assessing the threat of potential violence against BIPOC activists in Washington DC on January 6. Jasmine’s personal experience as an anti-racist and anti-fascist organizer sustains this sometimes difficult work; the commitment to change can inspire us to persevere in the face of injustice and oppression.
