Dataharvest 2014

This workshop will give an overview of the range of threats from public and private organisations and the various measures to deal with them. What tools to use (and not use) under certain conditions and how to defeat state-level attacks against your communications on a shoestring budget. While many of the threats to electronic communications have been discussed for decades the revelations made by Edward Snowden last year have shown us the scope and scale of the intrusion on our basic rights as humans and journalists. As a journalist you need to be able to protect your sources, yourself and your story (in that order). This means securing both content and meta-data relating to any communications you have with them by electronic or other means. In the future the ability of a journalist to effectively do this will determine if sources come to them or not. Glen Greenwald was almost passed over for the scoop of a lifetime because he did not have encrypted email on his laptop at the time Snowden was trying to contact him. After the introduction to basic theory and some discussion we will get hands on and set up various tools to browse anonymously, chat and mail with encryption and prevent data-loss from theft/confiscation of laptops and storage media. This will include the TOR-browser, Truecrypt, GPG mailcrypto and other tools time permitting.