Sessions
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Anti-Racist Technoculture for Racial Equity
Presented by Ari Melenciano
Examine how historical systematic racist practices have replicated themselves into present-day algorithms.
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Digital Defenses for the People: Practical Digital Security
Presented by TLC Instructors
This beginner-friendly introduction to digital safety will cut through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt generated by the frenetic news cycle and the latest Internet privacy listicle. Level-up your online privacy prowess with this chance to ask the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers your most pressing online privacy and digital security questions.
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From Pinkertons to Palantir: History and Political Economy of Police Surveillance
Presented by Abi Hassen
The recent onslaught of tech driven surveillance might seem like a new phenomenon but it can also be seen as a continuation of long-running dynamics. Technology, state control, and quasi-scientific techniques have a long, deeply intertwined history. Understanding this history is important for contextualizing any attempts to change the current systems.
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Gone Phishing: Recognize Online Entrapment and Other Scams by Learning How to Launch Your Own Phishing Attack Website
Presented by Anonymous Members
This workshop is a combination “attack/defense” exercise focusing on Web-based social engineering attacks. Participants will practice both how to launch their own attacks as well as how to defend against them.
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Is it Facial or is it Racial?: The Threat of Face Recognition Technology in NYC Housing
Presented by Tasliym Francis
and Tranae Moran
and Mona Patel
The Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association has come together to speak out against proposals for facial recognition systems in residential spaces throughout the city. Facial recognition technology is an unnecessary evil being forced on marginalized communities of color in gentrifying areas that are already being over surveilled in some cases.
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Legal Hackers Workshop: Protecting Privilege and Encryption for Lawyers
Presented by Nick Merrill
This workshop aims to bring together lawyers, activists and technologists to discuss cryptography, protecting confidential data, and confronting government surveillance in light of the NSA’s dragnet data collection program.
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Machines in the Middle: Performing and Detecting an ARP Cache Poisoning Attack
Presented by Anonymous Members
Solidify your understanding of the data-link layer (OSI Layer 2) at this hands-on workshop that will walk you through the process of performing a classic ARP spoofing attack, a fundamental NetSec technique that is still used in many real-life hacking scenarios today.
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Mobile security checklist for movement makers
Presented by Olivia Martin
Members of movements use their phones to document abuses and triumphs, communicate with collaborators, and access shared documents. All this sensitive movement data requires additional effort to keep secure prior to and during an action, and recover if things go wrong. Participants at this talk should expect to walk away with a quick-start to protect the sensitive data on their mobile phones.
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Network the Revolution: Building Alternative Internets
Presented by red clover
Because hardware has never before been both so powerful and so affordable, a new era of community-run digital infrastructure is dawning. Among these possibilities for new modes of de-/re-programming Capitalist modes of operation within digital spaces is the exciting landscape of the neighborhood or citywide mesh intranet. red_clover from ShiftCTRL Space will briefly explain the material circumstances, so as to explore new avenues of resilient organizing using autonomously run networks and services.
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No New Jails: Overview of Abolitionist Work and its Roots in Older Struggles
Presented by Nabil Hassein
Organizers with the No New Jails NYC campaign will present an overview of the past year and change of our abolitionist work (and its roots in older struggles), both inside and outside of the formal land use process, and will outline some future priorities to continue the fight against the construction of new jails and for a future of freedom for our communities, notwithstanding the decision of the political establishment to recommit NYC to an indefinite future of cages for humans. The discussion of the current status of our work and struggles in general will lead to a participatory discussion with the audience about our imaginaries of the future and our roles in bringing those visions for liberation into existence.
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Signal and Surveillance: How to Exercise Digital Civil Liberties in a Surveillance State
Presented by TLC Instructors
This introductory cybersecurity workshop will show you why Signal, a free, secure, private message app is simple enough to schedule drinks with, yet secure enough to use for planning a protest. As dragnet surveillance practices are legalized at alarming speed, there has never been a more important time to flex your digital civil liberties muscle than right now.
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Staying Safe Together: Threat Modeling and Holistic Security
Presented by Grey
Threats are everywhere all the time! But we still need to be able to function in our lives and in our organizing. This workshop will give an introduction to threat modeling, exploring tools we can use to make safe space for discussion of threats in our work, and building stronger more resilient communities and groups.
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Surveillance and the City: New York’s Spy State
Presented by Albert Fox Cahn, Esq.
Wondering if the new year will look like 1984, join the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn for a briefing on the fight to reform NYPD surveillance and protect privacy.
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Taking Back the Internet with Tor
Presented by Isabela Bagueros
Tracking, surveillance, and censorship are widespread online, but Tor tools, including Tor Browser and onion services, empower you to take back the internet.
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Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)
Presented by TLC Instructors
Come learn how the free Tor Web Browser, a free, state-of-the-art, privacy-enhancing Web browser, SOCKS proxy, and anonymizing overlay mixnet, can be your gateway to the Dark Web while simultaneously keeping you safer and your personal info more private as you browse web sites big and small.
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Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky: New York City’s pirates of the airwaves
Presented by David Goren
and DJ Cintronics
David Goren explores the world of pirate radio in New York City past and present through the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map project and conversation with DJ Cintronics, founder of the legendary hip hop pirate station WBAD. Today well over 100 unlicensed radio stations break the law to bring music and news from home to 1st and 2nd generation immigrant neighborhoods, along with practical guidance and spiritual comfort for survival in a new land.
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Utilizing participatory educational methods in digital security trainings
Presented by Jonathan Stribling-Uss, Esq.
This is a professional participatory education workshop for secure use of the technology we all rely on. This workshop will leave you with the knowledge to protect your rights, encrypt sensitive data, and secure your communications. You will also learn about the Trump regime’s threats to our liberties, both online and off.
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Whose AIs Are On Your Data?: How Web De-Centralization May Be the Civil Rights Battle of Our Time
Presented by Davi Ottenheimer
Inrupt co-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s new initiative, Solid, promises to give control of data back to the users of the web and create a new era of secure innovation. Learn how inrupt aims to fulfil this optimistic vision from the company’s Chief Security Architect.