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October 20
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
This month we welcome Phil Lapsley who will be speaking about his great book “Exploding the Phone” and the interaction between telecommunication companies, telecoms and computer security laws, and what happens when curiosity and technologists' ethics face up against law enforcement, or the law itself.
We'll also take a look at Open Access week with EFF's Maira Sutton, and look at the case of Diego Gomez who faces up to eight years in prison and crippling monetary fines for sharing another academic's master's thesis with his colleagues online.
September 15
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
Bring out your projects!
This month, we'll be talking about current ongoing projects in the open source/DIY anti-surveillance, anti-censorship world. Whether it's your own hairbrained scheme, your favourite little known tool, or the up-and-coming latest hyped item, come share your thoughts with your fellow cypherpunks and technoactivists. Laptops and devices welcomed (even more than usual).
August 18
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
This week will see the opening arguments in the trial of Ethiopia's Zone 9 bloggers, six young online writers arrested for blogging earlier this year. Among the charges the bloggers face are learning about encryption to protect their communications.
While citizens in the country are facing prison for using secure technology, the Ethiopian government has been using modern surveillance techniques without limit, with research by Human Rights Watch, EFF and CitizenLab demonstrating pervasive telecom eavesdropping at home and the use of customized malware abroad – including the targeting of dissidents in the United States and Europe.
This month's TA3M features a discussion with Endalk Chala, co-founder of Zone 9, Global Voices contributor, and currently the Google Policy Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We'll talk about the trial, Human Rights Watch's report on Ethiopia's digital surveillance state, and EFF's current case against the Ethiopian Government, Kidane v. Ethiopia, for remotely deploying spyware on a U.S. citizen in Maryland.
All that, plus your chance to chat and brainstorm and eat random snacks to with your fellow techno-activists.
More info:
The Zone 9 trial: http://trialtrackerblog.org/
EFF's case against Ethiopia: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/american-sues-ethiopian-government-spyware-infection
“They Know Everything We Do” - Telecom and Internet Surveillance in Ethiopia: http://www.hrw.org/node/123977
July 21
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
Techno-Activism Third Mondays returns to EFF, with a talk by Forbes' privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. Kashmir will be talking media coverage of privacy issues, and doing a deep dive on Facebook's emotional manipulation study, the story she explored and led for days.
Plus networking, snacks, and privacy-enhancing beverages.
June 16
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
It's Techno-activism Third Mondays time again (or almost, depending on when you're reading this). This week, we'll be hearing a bit about Open Wireless from EFF's Technology Fellow Ranga Krishnan, plus TextSecure news, a Reset The Net update, and anything else you'd like to talk about with San Francisco's anti-censorship, anti-surveillance activists.
Discussion, networking, snacks and calming forms of drink at EFF.
May 19
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
June 5th, 2013 was the day that began the Year of Edward Snowden. On the anniversary of the release of the first NSA documents, we'll be taking a look at what we've learned, and what we still don't know – with an emphasis on teaching others how to protect themselves.
After the latest revelations showed that Snowden tried to teach Glenn Greenwald how to use PGP by video, and that Greenwald used Cryptocat in Hong Kong, we'll be echoing Matthew Green's question: “So has Snowden succeeded? Have developers 'created better encryption' since his leaks?”
Join EFF's Eva Galperin for a discussion of what we've learned in usability, popularity, and opsec. Discussion, networking, snacks and cool iced drinks at EFF.
April 21
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
Deterministic builds (and previously undetermined SSL bugs)
This week, we'll be joined by Seth Schoen, who'll demonstrate some of the challenges of protecting even open source from malicious insertions, and how we might be able to make stronger guarantees about the provenance of your computer's code.
After that, a Q&A and discussion with some of the folks who've been co-ordinating the response against Heartbleed, including what went wrong (a lot), and what should we fix first?
Join us for snacks, networking, and tech talk this Monday!
March 17
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
Rightscon Decompression and Review
This month, San Francisco hosted Rightscon, the human rights and technology conference organized by Access. We saw many familiar faces there, and thought we'd spend this week's meeting informally talking about lessons learned, questions raised, and what actions we can take next. Whether you attended or not, come along, and hear about what happened and what might happen next.
February 17
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
It's the Week After The Day We Fought Back!
This month's TA3M San Francisco features April Glaser, one of EFF's activism team, leading a de-briefing on The Day We Fight Back from some of the key figures who made it possible. We'll also chat about reaching out to new and vulnerable communities, with some hard facts and hard questions.
January 20
TA3M January isn't happening in San Francisco, due to a one-in-a-million combination of MLK Day and the organizers being on the other side of the world from SF, and each other.
We'll see you on President's Day though – promise!
December 16
We're taking a holiday break this week. See you on MLK day, 2014! President's Day!
November 18
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
Topic: Digital rights activists are often without support - at this meeting, we'll be discussing the issue of self-care: How do you find resources for psychological and other health care? How can we create systems of support for our most vulnerable friends and allies? With Jillian York, Laurie Penny, and Morgan Mayhem.
Have any suggestions? Want to speak? Let us know: jillian [at] eff [dot] org.
October 21
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco (we'll wait at the front door until 6:15; after that, ring ext. 118)
Topic: Freedom of the Press Foundation director and EFF activist Trevor Timm will join us to discuss EFF's NSA activism and the SecureDrop leaking platform.
Also on the menu: Your thoughts! Have something to present? Let us know: jillian [at] eff [dot] org.
September 16
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
Topic: NSA vs The Rest of the World: the international consequences of the NSA scandal Speakers: Jillian York, Danny O'Brien
Also: project round-up, other events, drinks and networking
June 17
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor, Church Classroom (right at the back)
May 20
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor, Church Classroom (right at the back)
This will be a round-table discussion on various topics: tech security training, tahoe-lafs, current projects, the CTS event in Hong Kong.
April 15
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor, Church Classroom (right at the back)
This will be a round-table discussion on various topics: tech security training, tahoe-lafs, current projects, the CTS event in Hong Kong.
March 18th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor, Church Classroom (right at the back)
We'll be talking drones – the threats, the opportunities, and the law.
With us will be Parker Higgins and Trevor Timm, masterminds behind the EFF's drones analysis program.
Compering will be Yan Zhu, co-ordinator of the recent Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons.
February 18th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor
We'll be chatting with Melissa Chan , one of many journalists targeted with malware while she was working in China.
January 21st
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor
January 21, 2013 Speaker:
Videos from Event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lb6aBHZxM&feature=youtu.be
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4cgzycEjiGtTmJsSDJJQjNaY28/edit
Our main topic will be Freedom of Information Act requests
