Everyone is invited to attend a Crypto Party!
Quote from the official Crypto Party Handbook
“Privacy is a fundamental human right. It is recognised in many countries to be as central to individual human dignity and social values as Freedom of Association and Freedom of Speech. Simply put, privacy is the border where we draw a line between how far a society can intrude into our personal lives.”
2pm to 5pm Sunday 20th December 2015 Cygnet Town Hall upstairs in the Supper Room Open Streetmap
In anticipation that their will be different levels of knowledge and interest there will be two sections
topic summary:
List of known certification allowing booting from Secure Boot (UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS
Do your part to resist Government surveillance and take back your privacy:
“You're making some herd immunity for the people who really do need it, for the people doing that work, because their traffic blends in with yours.” Tom Sulston
“Security is complicated, it's more about operational security.”
“Surveillance and freedom are compatible = not”
“Privacy is a matter of individual choice as to what to reveal about one’s behaviour to others, whereas anonymity, in the modern commercialised celebrity-driven world, is assumed to represent a harsh societal dismissal of individual worth.”
“The public’s willingness to voluntarily—nay, enthusiastically—sacrifice privacy is fuelled by a very modern fear of being ignored in a culture where the most observed are the most valued.”
The main price paid by turning the war on terror into a war on the public’s right to know, a bipartisan crusade, is that it destroys the foundation of democracy—an informed public.“
“If you're not the customer you are the product” is an older saying “Now you are the customer and the product”
“Secret orders based on secret interpretation of secret law”
“Data is the pollution of the information age”