29th Septermber, London Hackspace
7:30pm
Hi everyone, welcome to
the first blogpost from the London cryptoparty. We've seen a growing
international movement recently to meet with people interested in
protecting their data and to exchange keys and information on how to
make encryption more accessible to the general population.
We live in a world
where our communications and our lives are increasingly monitored by
not just the government, but private corporations and even local
councils are generating databases on our personal communications. We
need encryption more and more in our daily lives to keep ourselves
protected from prying eyes.
As a response to this
and other similar actions around the globe, a bunch of London hackers
have banded together to help share their knowledge with the rest of
society how to use the tools available to them, to help protect their
personal data from prying eyes.
Encryption is a tool,
and like any tool if we use it incorrectly, it won't work. This is
becoming an increasing problem with new people attempting to protect
their data and falling into the same traps. Badly used encryption is
far more dangerous that none at all, as we see people falling into a
false sense of security, thinking they are protected, when actually
the truth is they are exposing all the data they want protected.
Some people may say
that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear, but this is
a notion that has been discredited time and again. In an information
age, corporations and governments value our data and its crazy that
the rest of the population value it so little. Your data is freedom
to corporations and governments that want to make changes they want
through manipulation. What happens when government bans your
favourite hobby? With your profile, they will know exactly where to
find you. What happens when you want to sue a large corporation?
With your data they can find many things to try to discredit you in
court. There are many more examples where we need to value our lives
and keep them from organisations that want to spy on us.
For this end we will be
running a workshop and tutorial for those that wish to learn basic
online safety techniques and swap keys at the London Hackspace on
Saturday 29th September at 7:30pm. We hope you can join
us there, for updates follow this blog, or follow @crysison
@samthetechie and @cryptopartylond on twitter
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