Topics
Data sovereignty
Sustainable community infrastructure
Which is more sinister: corporate or government surveillance?
What role does free software play in the surveillance state?
What can we do about the NSA and GCHQ's surveillance regimes other than ask them politely to stop? How will we know if we have any success?
How does mobile telephony play into the global surveillance state? What are the current tradeoffs, are they worth making, and can we imagine a better set of tradeoffs?
Who controls the cloud? Are users of virtualization destined for corporate slavery, or can virtualization be used to increase information sovereignty, autonomy, interdependence, and mutual aid?
Authenticity, Anonymity, Surveillance, and Repression: tensions on today's Internet.
The evolution, ethics, and economics of software vulnerability disclosure patterns; what are their consequences for dissent?
Perfect forward secrecy: what is it, when is it useful, how can you use it?
Radical protocol analysis: how do our communications protocols influence us socially and politically? What can we do to reshape the protocols so that they have better social and political consequences?
Backups as basic organizational hygiene.
Distributed naming schemes -- how do we know who we are on the 'net? Why does it matter? Who gets to decide? What else could we be doing?
OpenPGP best practices.
Using distributed revision control for web application intrusion detection and disaster recovery.
Running a free software computer lab.
Using free tools for crafting and arts.
Ethical and practical considerations around power consumption for information infrastructure.
Theory and practice of disk encryption: what can it protect you from, how does it work, and how do you do it?
What exactly is a bootloader anyway? (or, understanding your computer more closely, from powerup to shutdown)
Bug reporting for fun and profit (profit to the community, that is).
Vulnerability analysis: a hands-on session, showing each other ways that we audit code for security problems.
What is Git? How can content-addressable data storage change the way we think about information and history?