[liberationtech] A modest proposal for protecting the work (and freedom) of activists.

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Glenn said he didn't know how to encrypt until Snowden taught him how:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald_n_3416978.html


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Katy Pearce <katycarvt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, my perspective comes from  researching and knowing activists in
> authoritarian states - they have so much ICT security training and
> documentation thrown at them in a multitude of languages, yet they still
> don't use it. I had no idea that someonel ike Glen Greewald - a native
> English speaker with a college education - can't figure this out. Maybe
> some of that training material written in Russian or Chinese or Arabic or
> Farsi needs to be translated into English.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Kate Krauss <katie at critpath.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the idea is that there is a subset of activists and journalists
>> who are very motivated to encrypt who can't. Glen Greenwald comes to mind.
>> I come to mind, and a bunch of my activist friends from countries under
>> pressure. I don't see much easy to use instruction on how--and finding them
>> easily is important. I do see a lot of obsolete sites (and is the MIT key
>> server broken?) that come up first in searches.
>>
>> Thanks for reading and commenting,
>>
>> Katie
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Katy Pearce <katycarvt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My point is that, to my understanding, there already exists a lot of
>>> very digestible trainings. But until other issues are addressed, adoption
>>> is not likely. Decades of research tells us this. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Nathan of Guardian <
>>> nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Katy Pearce <katycarvt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >Not to be a downer here, but until this is addressed:
>>>>
>>>> Your post specifically discussed building a training wizard and I was
>>>> simply showing you what we had done here to make a simple, friendly
>>>> experience using plain language.
>>>>
>>>> I would keep the discussion focused on that for now, because it is a
>>>> worthwhile topic and there are many existing super easy solutions out there
>>>> that definitely need help on the awareness building front.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to have the "I want unbreakable crypto that is simple, fast
>>>> and totally invisible" discussion we can, but is a different topic.
>>>>
>>>> With all respect,
>>>>    Nathan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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