You stopped BPD’s social media spying plans (January 17, 2017)
Thanks to everyone who joined us in opposing the the Boston Police Department’s plans to spend $1.4 million to spy on Bostonians’ social…
Category: Privacy
It took seven legislators (December 30, 2016)
Seven legislators is all it took to delay selling cannabis legally in Massachusetts. The voters agreed that one year is enough to figure…
Tell Boston to shut down the BPD’s social media spying program (December 14, 2016)
We join 20 civil rights, civil liberties, religious, and community organizations in calling on Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Police Commissioner William Evans…
Wednesday, Digital Security 101 Workshop (November 28, 2016)
On Wednesday, the monthly Somerville Cryptoparty this November will offer a Digital Security 101 workshop that will focus on getting new folks up…
Digital Security 101 Workshop, 11/30, Somerville (November 15, 2016)
The monthly Somerville Cryptoparty this November will offer a Digital Security 101 workshop that will focus on getting new folks up to speed…
Somerville Cryptoparty is Wednesday at The Sprouts (October 23, 2016)
The monthly Somerville Cryptoparty is this 6-9pm this Wednesday (always the last Wednesday of the month). It has moved to The Sprouts at…
Learn to protect your privacy this Saturday or Wednesday (October 21, 2016)
There will be two cryptoparties this week that will be good opportunities to learn to protect your privacy online: Boston Public Library cryptoparty on…
Don’t be John. Encrypt your email (October 8, 2016)
This is John. He didn’t encrypt the text of his email using GnuPGP. He didn’t insist that all of the email sent to him…
Giving up our rights does not make us safer (July 15, 2016)
Our hearts go out to the people of Nice after the horrible attack there. Whether it is Baghdad, Orlando, Dallas or Dhaka, single…
Somerville Cryptoparty Tonight (May 25, 2016)
The next monthly Somerville cryptoparty will be tonight, Wednesday, May 25th. It will be from 6-9pm, and will be at Parts & Crafts…