[act-ma] Learn how to protect your privacy on the net THIS Saturday, Nov. 23, Lowell

[James O'Keefe]

WHAT:  Learn how to protect your privacy on the net

WHERE:  Lowell Makes, 47 Lee St, Lowell, MA.

WHEN:  This Saturday, Nov. 23rd, 10am-6pm

This Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, Lowell Makes, a new makerspace in
Massachusetts, will be hosting an all-day cryptoparty. It is free though you
can get a ticket<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cryptoparty-tickets-9139734191?aff=efbevent>.
There is also a Facebook event you can sign up
to<https://www.facebook.com/events/168444420031097/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming>
.

The schedule is:

10am – Start
10:30am – What digital fingerprints do you leave? – James O’Keefe
11am – Free Software Software – Zak Rogoff, FSF
noon – Web Surfing with Tor – Steve Revilak
1pm – Lunch
2pm – Communicating with Jitsi – Kendra Moyer
3pm – Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies – Al Willis
4pm – Securing your email with GnuPG – Steve Revilak
5pm – Mesh Networking – William Fleurant

Attend all of it or whatever interests you.

Some of the sessions are hands on so please bring a laptop to take full
advantage of them. Also, it helps if you download the software prior to the
cryptoparty:

   - Tor <https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en>
   - Jitsi <https://jitsi.org/Main/Download>
   - Bitcoin <http://bitcoin.org/en/getting-started>
   - GnuPG – Linux <http://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html>,
Window<http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html>
   , Mac <https://gpgtools.org/>

This event is sponsored by Lowell Makes, 47 Lee St, Lowell, MA.