Today at 14:00 UTC, tune in for Philipp Winter's presentation on circumventing Internet censorship with @torproject!
Watch the live-stream here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6xEfNHkFKY
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Hi folks! 9 years ago (to the day), the late Aaron Swartz made the first commit to SecureDrop, which was then called DeadDrop. Today the project is used by >70 media orgs around the world.
It's an open source whistleblower submission platform that uses the Tor network to protect source anonymity. We're also working on a next-generation integrated workstation for journalists based on Qubes OS:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation
We're happy to be here! #introductions
@nurniflowenol Welcome! I hope you have a fantastic week as well!
@darylsun Thanks! I've enjoyed it here so far and I'm sure I will continue to!
@copycat_b π Thanks for the welcome!
If the "EARN It" anti-encryption bill wasn't bad enough, the newly introduced βLawful Access to Encrypted Data Act of 2020β is the the encryption backdoor mandate we've been dreading: https://u.fsf.org/33z
The contact-tracing apps springing up all over the world have the same potential to violate user freedom and privacy that all proprietary programs do. Plus, they can open the path for authoritarian governments to further violate human rights: https://u.fsf.org/33-
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