Keep Your Sensitive Files, Elsewhere with Virginia Zangs + Maisa Imamović

Join us for an insightful workshop that dives deep into the intricacies of digital (in)security and file storage! 📁✨

What You'll Learn:

• Surveillance Tools: Understand the current tools against vulnerable communities, artists, and cultural workers.
• File Vulnerability: Discover where your files are most at risk, including unexpected locations.
• Legal Protections: Empower yourself with knowledge about what you can legally safeguard and how to assert those rights.
• Prototyping Storage Infrastructure: Create your own secure storage setups for sensitive materials like immigration records and legal documents.

Key Activities:

• Hands-on Learning: Bring your own sensitive documents and learn how to host them on a Raspberry Pi — a compact, budget-friendly device that helps keep your data away from proprietary servers.
• Digital Hygiene Practices: Set up your digital environment for secure email and password management, alternative storage systems (NAS, IPFS), and the essential practices for controlling your online presence.

Participants will receive tools and technology introductions, resource handouts, and access to a shared are.na channel.

Capacity: 20 participants

Cost: Sliding Scale $25-40 💵

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of digital privacy and security!

📍 Location: Wilshire Online

👉 Tickets Available Here: Reserve Your Spot