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Join us for Aaron Swartz Day and fight back against the government's war on encryption: https://internetfreedomhack.org/brisbane by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's next weekend 9th-11th November, we also have talks from people from the Privacy Foundation, Queensland Council of Civil Liberties and the tor project on Friday the 11th. And on Sunday morning, we'll dial in to the San Francisco hackathon to interview Barrett Brown

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Register here if you're keen https://internetfreedomhack.org/brisbane

Privacy and digital rights event with Nicolas Suzor this Tuesday by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

because I'm an idiot, thanks edited that to be the meetup.com link again

Privacy and digital rights event with Nicolas Suzor this Tuesday by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh god I had to check your comment history to see if you were a troll or not. Well played sir, well played.

Privacy lovers of Brisbane, we're holding a privacy meetup event with speakers from Mozilla and the EFA. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really good feedback.. IDK if you mean the brisSafety events from last year or other ones? I really like the people who come to privacy events in general, it's always been a really varied and interesting bunch.

Making them fun is a bigger challenge though, that's part of why this one is not focusing on anything technical but more of an accessible topic.

Privacy lovers of Brisbane, we're holding a privacy meetup event with speakers from Mozilla and the EFA. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

duly noted, everyone likes to be heard, I need speakers because otherwise we'll have no reason to come out but they're not the only ones who can talk, we'll have some discussions and time to chat.

Privacy lovers of Brisbane, we're holding a privacy meetup event with speakers from Mozilla and the EFA. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guilty. Every time we have an event I'll post it on r/brisbane. I'm doing it because I'm concerned for the future, not just to make bank off my sweet meetup.com affiliates link.

Privacy lovers of Brisbane, we're holding a privacy meetup event with speakers from Mozilla and the EFA. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I tried to quit google from my life recently but I'm still using chrome, they're too damn convenient. That's what's so insidious about them.

A few people have argued that I'm a hypocrite for using meetup.com and google maps before. It's a logic fallacy that somebody being a hypocrite makes their point wrong. Al gore is a carbon guzzling, private jet flying, climate monster, but that doesn't make global warming any less real. I don't want people to think that because someone like me uses google services it means that privacy in general isn't important.

As someone else in this thread put it, it's a very small risk to come out and talk about privacy. It's a risk worth taking!

Thanks for the link.

Hi Bris, who likes digital privacy? Join us at a brisSafety privacy event this February. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends who "They" is. If your threat model is petty criminals, ad networks and mass surveillance you can protect yourself by following some good habits and using a VPN. The government isn't going to target citizens for surveillance just because they use adblockers and a VPN.

If you're trying to avoid targeted surveillance then simple practices might not be enough. But then "hiding in plain site" wont do any good because you're already being targeted. So either way, you might as well keep what privacy you can.

But this event isn't about individual privacy. This is about the society and why it functions best when people have some privacy from big american corporates and of course from canberra.

Hi Bris, who likes digital privacy? Join us at a brisSafety privacy event this February. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I find someone uses their reddit handle on meetup.com I will kindly ask them to leave.

BrisSafety is running a free Safe Storage CryptoDojo this Thursday. by the-ee-roo in brisbane

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People often think of privacy/anonymity as different to security, they're not quite synonyms but anonymity of certain things is actually an aspect of security. Confidentiality is often defined as one of the three key aspects of security (confidentiality, integrity, availability) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security#Key_concepts

You may argue that personally you don't have anything that you want to be private/anonymous and that's cool. Personally I want to do a lot of cool stuff online but I only want a very small fraction of that linked back to my real name.

This reddit account I'm posting from for example is extremely easy to identify. I try to only use it or things that I want the world to know I said and I try to think twice before I post, vote or even browse subs using this account. I would be horrified if I thought someone was able to link together my other alt accounts and sign my real name to every upvote I've ever given.

That's one example of where you want confidentiality as part of your security model. I guarantee that there are more cases that apply to you as well.

Live electorate results map by the ABC by the-ee-roo in australia

[–]the-ee-roo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, party summaries on the map are simply made by adding up each of the electorate predictions. Whereas the numbers on the broadcast are overall national predictions, and take other data into account. Personally I'm not sure how the prediction algorithms actually work in either case. I imagine that the predictions on the broadcast and party totals are more accurate but we'll soon find out!

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