Digital Security – Femmetech

Digital Security Training Guide for Organizations

August 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by femmetech

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From Fall 2017 - through the Spring of 2018, I got to work with ten other trainers to collaborate on the design and facilitation of a digital security training series for organizations, and our pilot group was organizations supporting immigrants in NYC. In particular, our goal was to "build power…

Secure your facebook data

March 28, 2018 by femmetech

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The tragic thing about theÂ Cambridge AnalyticaÂ data is that it was collected in part because people said "Yes" to a Facebook app without getting informed. Given the recentÂ draggingÂ Facebook is getting for being aÂ pipelineÂ to share people'sÂ data, I thought this instance of IT Tech Tips could focus on: Things you can do…

A data stewardship approach to security audits

January 14, 2018February 4, 2018 by femmetech

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While the concept of a security "audit" can turn off some folks, I like to bring in data stewardship as a care practice to ground us in why digital security matters -- and how audits can become a normal and non-creepy part of your technology practices. Data stewardship is a…

Digital Information Security: Explaining the Two Main Issues & How To Deal With Them

December 6, 2016November 9, 2017 by femmetech

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[download this resource as a PDF:infosec_resources_femmetechdec2016-1] While the current political climate in the US is spawning mass interest in digital security, the situation as it stands has been created over the last 20 years or so, with concern and activism around the issue rising with the tide of technologies that…

Digital Security Options for Punk Community Spaces

September 29, 2015April 18, 2019 by femmetech

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[from a mini-discussion 9/29/15 atÂ QUILTBAG++, with much thanks to Roo Khan of Palante Tech for skills and recommendations] Recently I was presented with a technology problem: the downloads in a rural, well-traveled, punk/artist community space are threatening that spaces' security to retaining internet access. Is a strongarm solution - hard…