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Digital Security & Privacy for Newsrooms
What is the workshop?
An initiative called "Digital Security & Privacy for Newsrooms" for working journalists, editors, journalism/media educators, and students.
Journalists have become more vulnerable on assignment in dangerous places, but also in their daily routines, at home, in the newsroom, or on the road, as digital surveillance increases.
The objective of this workshop is to ensure secure communication and storage of confidential data/sources and avoid surveillance/mobile tracking for media houses.
Who should attend?
- Working Journalists & Editors
- Journalism/Media Educators
- Journalism Students
- CTO, CISO, Information Security Managers from News Organizations
- Activists
- Lawyers
Note: These workshops are designed keeping in mind at-risk groups like - Journalists, Lawyers, Activists which are prone to surveillance and cyberattacks.
It's highly recommended for people who work in similar fields.
For more information about upcoming workshops or a private session at your media organization, contact us: [email protected].
1. [Workshop] Digital Security and Privacy for Journalists, Activists, and Lawyers | Goa, India
Date: March 8, 2020 (Sunday) | Time: 09:30 AM - 4:00 PM IST | Venue: Taj Hotel and Convention Center, Dona Paula
Schedule:
| Time | Speakers |
|---|---|
| 09:30 to 09:45 | Introduction |
| 09:45 to 10:30 | dangerzone: Working With Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked by Micah Lee, Director of Information Security at The Intercept |
| 10:30 to 11:15 | Panel Discussion: Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns Zainab Bawa, CEO - HasGeek (Moderator) Arjun Venkatraman, Co-founder of The Mojolab Foundation Prateek Waghre, Research Analyst at The Takshashila Institution Raman Jit Singh Chima, Policy Director at Access Now Shehla Rashid Shora, Research Scholar, JNU |
| 11:15 to 11:30 | BREAK |
| 11:30 to 12:15 | Saikat Datta, South Asia Editor at Asia Times |
| 12:15 to 13:00 | Kushal Das, Developer of SecureDrop at Freedom of the Press Foundation |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 to 16:00 | Hands-on Workshop with Demos from Kushal Das, Developer of SecureDrop at Freedom of the Press Foundation |
| Online/Remote | Basic Security Analysis on Data and Information by Tom Banaria, Digital Security Consultant for Internews |
Goa RSVP Form:
https://form.jotform.me/200146402088446
[RSVP is mandatory to attend the workshop.] [These workshops are kept free of charge to educate & secure maximum at-risk groups/individuals.]
Workshop Supported By:
1. [Workshop] Digital Security and Privacy for Journalists, Activists and Lawyers | Pune, India
Supported by:
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) | 1Password | NordVPN | MediaNama | PortaPow
Date: February 1, 2020 (Saturday) | Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM IST | Venue: Payatu Technologies Private Limited
Pune RSVP Form:
https://form.jotform.com/200065311596045
[RSVP is mandatory to attend the workshop.] [These workshops are kept free of charge to educate & secure maximum at-risk groups.]
Topics Covered:
- Threat modeling 101
- Securing your computer + phone, the basics
- Tools to use for privacy in both computers and phones
- Usage of the Tor Project, where and why?
& more.
Speaker:
Kushal Das is a public interest technologist at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where he helps to maintain the SecureDrop project. He is part of the core team of the Tor Project and CPython core contributors. He is also a director of the Python Software Foundation. He regularly blogs at https://kushaldas.in.2. Sunday, 3rd March 2019 at Holiday Inn Resort, Goa during nullcon Goa 2019
Thanks to Google for sponsoring. All the attendees got Google Titan Security Key.
It helps prevent account takeovers from phishing attacks.
Schedule | Sunday, 3rd March 2019
| Time | Topics |
|---|---|
| 10:00 to 10:45 | Importance of digital security & privacy for journalists - case study by Joseph Cox |
| 10:45 to 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:00 to 11:45 | Reporting on breaches - from reactive to proactive by Nirmal John |
| 11:45 to 12:45 | Secure communications - Tor & SecureDrop by Kushal Das |
| 12:45 to 13:45 | LUNCH |
| 13:45 to 15:00 | Securing mobile devices from Hackers by Pratik Ghumade |
| 15:00 to 15:15 | BREAK |
| 15:15 to 16:00 | Threat modelling by Pratik Ghumade |