Activist Tools Workshop Updated
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We gave a workshop at the Digital Media Conference introducing beginner-friendly free software tools to social change activists. The slidedeck includes links for all the software we talked about and specific instructions for using pictures in LibreOffice. Many of the web-based projects on the prism-break.org website are described in detail.
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Activist Tools Workshop Updated
- 15. BREAKING FREE ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● http://prism-break.org ● Operating System Live CD / VM Images Android iOS & WP (N/A) Web Browser Browser Add-ons Web Search Maps Email Service Email Client Email Encryption Instant Messaging Video Calls / VOIP Social Networking Could Storage
- 16. BREAKING FREE...MORE ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● http://prism-break.org Document Collab Media Publishing Online Transactions Digital Distribution VPN Web Analytics DNS Anonymizing Net Meshnet Server O/S File Encryption Mail Server XMPP SIP Server Hardware & Software
- 20. ADD TO FIREFOX
- 22. NO SCRIPT ON SALON.COM
- 23. BROWSING THE WEB Chromium without blocking Firefox with ABE, NoScript, RequestPolicy and Disconnect
- 24. DISCONNECT ON SALON.COM Disconnect blocks 69 trackers on this page.
- 27. DIASPORA
- 28. SYNDICATING FROM DIASPORA Botton Diaspora post syndicated to Facebook. Top Diaspora post syndicated to Twitter.
- 29. PHOTOS AND MEDIA Media Goblin
- 30. FEDERATION vs. centralized + vunerable distributed + resilient
- 31. HANG UP ON SKYPE WITH JITSI 1. Get free SIP account: https://ostel.co/ 2. Download Jitsi: https://jitsi.org
- 32. EMAIL
- 34. CLOUD STORAGE
- 36. TOR Even safer: use Liberté Linux or Tails
- 37. NEW SETUP / DIRECTION OpenNIC + TOR Locked down with plugins Startpage & Duck Duck Go Self-hosted, Riseup, or MyKolab Syndicate via Diaspora Syndicate via Diaspora MediaGoblin (eventually) OwnCloud (hopefully) Jitsi (when possible)
- 38. Finding Pictures
- 40. Creative Commons
- 43. and Fair Use
- 70. OTHER AREAS TO EXPLORE ● Document collaboration ala Google Docs ● Online currencies, e.g. Bitcoin ● Meshnets ● Phone rooting
- 71. LESSONS LEARNED ● Start simple ● Can't plug every hole at once ● Protect yourself when it is important to do so ● Use free services to syndicate to non-free until you can leave non-free services entirely ● Success requires bringing friends along ● Share the work & fun with communities of trust
- 72. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY We need federation support, and then we need more people running servers for their friends and family...It's really important to get people using these things en masse... and running them! – Chris Webber, Media Goblin
- 73. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Get involved with free and open social networks first. Find ways to connect them to your Tumblr, Path, LinkedIn, or whatever other proprietary network. Use them often, and have fun with them. As your friends, family and colleagues join you, you'll find you use other networks less often. – Evan Prodromou, pump.io
- 75. YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY deb@eximiousproductions.com ● will@commonmind.com ● http://www.blu.org/desktop ● THANKS! Now let's http://prism-break.org together
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- 10 - Linux Mint & Firefox = 8 + Apple Microsoft Yahoo LinkedIn
- I'm not affiliated with the prism-break.org website I don't consider myself free I consider myself on the road to freedom prism-break.org is the website that put me on that road and a tremendous resource
- the problem is...it is overwhelming: covers 30 categories of software and services at first, I simply got stuck staring at the page
- Corporations and the government can learn a lot about you based on what you search online This can be used for advertising purposes, which sometimes I'm OK with – if I'm in the market for a new car, perhaps I don't mind seeing ads for new cars Other times this can be intrusive, e.g. when third-party companies build profiles of you (sometimes inaccurate ones) and sell them to advertisers Duck Duck Go using the term "bubble" to mean Google, Bing, etc. put you into a bubble and only show you results they think you'll like, e.g. political messages...but sometimes you want to learn about all sides of an issue or simply not be profiled in this manner.
- Proxies Google search results Respects your privacy by not tracking what you search Imagine if a company kept a database of all your searches forever And accidentally or purposefully released that database to the public or to the government DON'T LIKE ABOUT STARTPAGE: Ads blend in ← Don't like this LIKE ABOUT IT: Date range settings on left are convenient
- Yahoo search results Highlights ads better No date filters, but sort by date option handy Image search takes you back to Google or Bing
- Locking down your browser is probably the easiest thing you can do These plug-ins were very well together, in a cascading manner Meaning, what one doesn't catch, the next one does
- Scripts from at least 19 different websites blocked for this one webpage
- Ads are blocked on the right User comments didn't render because they required Javascript – may be a good thing
- If I let everything pass through NoScript and RequestPolicy add-ons unblocked... Disconnect catches 69 trackers Disconnect reports 30% faster load and 18% less data
- The first step to joining Diaspora is to pick a pod Friendica calls nodes portals Start by viewing the pod uptime list I originally wanted to sign up for diasp.org because of its rating and it's in my country. There was a Sign In, but no Sign Up option so I opted for https://pod.geraspora.de. I figured there might be an advantage to a pod outside the US as well.
- Once signed up... There was an option to connect to Facebook so that Diaspora could pull my profile pic and other info as well as allow cross-posting so I followed the prompts and logged into Facebook to allow this. Diaspora asked me for tags based on my interests. I entered several. Posts with the tags you follow show up in your feed. Looked for my friends so I could connect with them: Found 2 out of 13 people (all free software users) One search field, e.g. no search by last name only Convinced 3 people to join with me (wife, dad, friend) Problems: can't move pods (need to recreate user and friends need to reconnect) + pod admin can see everything
- Needed help of sys admin to install Still a "temporary" installation in a Python virtual environment IRC channel was responsive and helpful Developer responsive via email Could not get video plug-in to work
- Even though I had the least success with MediaGoblin, it's probably the most inspiring project A federated alternative to YouTube Sites like YouTube and Facebook centralize user data and create a single point of failure for an attack or a takedown notice A federated system like MediaGoblin routes around damage when a node goes out and makes it much more difficult to takedown content because it is distributed throughout the network
- Jitsi uses SIP as well as other protocols Sign up and install were relatively easy Convinced my Spanish teacher in Guatemala (normally use Skype) and my father to sign up Both are Windows users and were able to get SIP ostel.co accounts After about 30 minutes of debugging issues, had a high quality video chat with my Dad who is in NY Spent 1.5 hours across 2 days trying to get Jitsi to work for me and my Spanish teacher, but never quite got there. Still hopeful.
- Email need to consider both service and client Currently use Gmail and feel locked in by it Have had trouble moving to Thunderbird because of overall slowness and unreliability of search However, use Thunderbird when I want to send or receive an encrypted message with GPG Tried Sylpheed and looks promising, but not enough experience I can run my own mail server, but it's a headache, especially with Spam Signed up for a MyKolab account – calendar, filesharing too, about $10/month/user
- Could not get OwnCloud installed in time to report on it, but it looks the most promising to me. SparkleShare works via git repositories and was relatively easy to setup. Found synchronization slow, but not enough experience to say for sure. Sparkleshare: good for file sharing within the context of a project especially when version tracking/history is needed Not ideal for backing up whole computer or photo libraries because everything gets versioned
- Tor is very easy to install No package to install Just download binary I'm not ready to use TOR exclusively, but use it occasionally when paranoia sets in
- Best practice is to avoid using external programs to view browser media, e.g. Flash, VLC Download and then play in a virtual machine without Internet access Or use a Tors LiveCD such as Liberté Linux or TAILS I couldn't bypass this warning even when downloading rather than viewing (TOR detects filemanager as Internet-enabled program)
- Won't always be the best choice from a technology or user interface or features perspective. But it's the right choice ethically: * for ourselves * for our neighbors * for our community * and for those who don't depend on security & privacy as they work on our behalf