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==== Overview ====
 
==== Overview ====
This week we'll cover one of the building blocks of privacy advocacy and a major theme for this course: threat modeling. Threat modeling is a method for figuring out a privacy strategy that works for someone based on their unique needs. Alison will teach us how to threat model, and how we can use this methodology in thinking about privacy in the current moment. We'll also talk about some of the 101 level ways that anyone can protect their privacy. We'll close out the lecture with some resources for learning how to do basic privacy education.  
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This week we'll cover one of the building blocks of privacy advocacy and a major theme for this course: threat modeling. Threat modeling is a method for figuring out a privacy strategy that works for someone based on their unique needs, their material conditions, and their community network. Alison will teach us how to threat model, and how we can use this methodology in thinking about privacy in the current moment and beyond. We'll also talk about free and open source software (FOSS), what it means for privacy, and how it offers one vision of a rhizomatic, grassroots, internationalist movement for better technology. Depending on time, we may cover some of the 101 level privacy tools for anyone with any threat model.
  
 
==== Readings ====
 
==== Readings ====
 
* Bruce Schneier on "The Security Mindset" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_mi_1.html
 
* Bruce Schneier on "The Security Mindset" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_mi_1.html
 
* Read EFF's threat modeling one-pager: https://www.eff.org/files/2015/11/24/3mod_threat-modeling-ssd_9-3-15.pdf
 
* Read EFF's threat modeling one-pager: https://www.eff.org/files/2015/11/24/3mod_threat-modeling-ssd_9-3-15.pdf
* Browse through Tactical Technology Collective's Data Detox Kit: https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/home
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* Browse through Tactical Technology Collective's Data Detox Kit: https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home/
 
* Browse through EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense: ssd.eff.org
 
* Browse through EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense: ssd.eff.org
* Browse through EFF's Security Education Companion: sec.eff.org
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* Globalization from below: free software and alternatives to neoliberalism: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Bf6S2-cujj21uLM0XzPHQVuV2Kg40d3/view?usp=sharing
* Read about making strong passwords: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/creating-strong-passwords
 
  
 
==== Guest lecturer ====
 
==== Guest lecturer ====
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* How can threat modeling help us when thinking about privacy practices?
 
* How can threat modeling help us when thinking about privacy practices?
 
* What adversaries are you thinking like when you think in a security mindset?
 
* What adversaries are you thinking like when you think in a security mindset?
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* Discussion of Data Detox Kit and Surveillance Self-Defense modules
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* How can free software challenge the hegemony of Big Tech? What lessons can we take from the Brazilian free software movement? What are the limitations to this approach?
  
 
==== Tasks ====  
 
==== Tasks ====  
* Lecture, readings, discussion forum, and small group work
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* Lecture, readings, and discussion forum  
* Complete one day of the Data Detox Kit https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home
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* Complete one module of the Data Detox Kit https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home or one module on Surveillance Self-Defense ssd.eff.org
* Download Signal Messenger (for Android or iOS) and then send a message to Alison to be added to the LFI cohort 3 Signal thread (Alison will share her number on the email list)
 

Latest revision as of 16:12, 22 May 2024

Week 3: Threat modeling and privacy basics[edit]

Overview[edit]

This week we'll cover one of the building blocks of privacy advocacy and a major theme for this course: threat modeling. Threat modeling is a method for figuring out a privacy strategy that works for someone based on their unique needs, their material conditions, and their community network. Alison will teach us how to threat model, and how we can use this methodology in thinking about privacy in the current moment and beyond. We'll also talk about free and open source software (FOSS), what it means for privacy, and how it offers one vision of a rhizomatic, grassroots, internationalist movement for better technology. Depending on time, we may cover some of the 101 level privacy tools for anyone with any threat model.

Readings[edit]

Guest lecturer[edit]

No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture

Discussion[edit]

  • How might someone's threat model have changed already given the current pandemic and uprisings for Black lives?
  • How can threat modeling help us when thinking about privacy practices?
  • What adversaries are you thinking like when you think in a security mindset?
  • Discussion of Data Detox Kit and Surveillance Self-Defense modules
  • How can free software challenge the hegemony of Big Tech? What lessons can we take from the Brazilian free software movement? What are the limitations to this approach?

Tasks[edit]

  • Lecture, readings, and discussion forum
  • Complete one module of the Data Detox Kit https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home or one module on Surveillance Self-Defense ssd.eff.org