LFI 2025/Week 7

Week 7: Technology for liberation, or at least just better passwords

• Real time lecture: Wednesday June 18th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y1pjWPhmZubm11tt65zfHO6nkunRfk4Fq6dySlDMocE/edit?usp=sharing

Readings

Take a look through some of these prominent digital security guides:

• Surveillance Self-Defense from EFF has great basic resources for different threat models: https://ssd.eff.org/
• Digital Defense Fund offers resources focused in particular on digital security for bodily autonomy: https://digitaldefensefund.org/learn
• Data Detox Kit is mainly about data minimization as an ongoing practice: https://www.datadetoxkit.org/en/home
• Activist Checklist is anonymously run, but their recommendations are pretty solid and draw from a lot of sources: https://activistchecklist.org/

This is just to give you some sense of digital security resources you can share. We'll be discussing best practices and tools in depth during our call.

Guest speaker

• Micah Lee, info security engineer, software engineer, investigative data journalist, author

Formerly at The Intercept, EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and worked on Snowden leaks

Tasks

• Add your questions for Micah to the Discord
• Privacy elevator pitch drafting in Discord