All,
My students (most of whom are members) and I will be hosting a cryptoparty at Hive13 the week of March 6th. Pending final doodle poll results, it looks like the night of Mon March 6th will work best.
A crypto party is essentially an open gathering where people can learn about digital citizenship in a casual, anything goes environment.
The event will be free and open to all. A donation of $1 or more to the Electronic Freedom Foundation will be suggested, but not required. If someone does not wish to support the EFF, a donation to the Free Software Foundation is possible. Fund matching may be possible – I am currently working on this.
Please see https://www.cryptoparty.in/ for more information.
I will be funding food, drink and providing general seed money for the event. This money is from a grant I have which funds community events and philanthropy. This is the same fund which payed for a documentarian to accompany us to San Francisco with PTDR.
My students are developing presentations and activities and will officiate. Some workshops / exhibits students are working on:
Abandonware – video games and open source
Privacy awareness – what is a VPN, Tor, SSL etc?
What information do I transmit – akin to ipleak.com showing how we all have a digital signature.
White hat hacking – demonstration of simple hacks. ie. what a hacker can see on an open wireless network.
Raspberry Pi and Linux how-to’s
We’d probably like to have a fun film or two going in the lounge, and, of course, there will be food, drink and social activity.
If you are interested in helping with anything, please send me a line.
This should be fun, and I look forward to having hive13 be a part of this. Furthermore, I hope that this might grow into a repeat offering in which Hive13 can give back to the community at large.
Lorin