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Cryptonoise: January 2019

On Thursday 17th January, we held the first Cryptonoise event of 2019. We had a good turn out and kicked off the discussion with a quick browse through Wikipedia’s list of data breaches.

Our first topic of discussion was relating to how we all used passwords and how password reuse can very quickly become problematic if it happens that your password is leaked.

Over time, the probability that any entity holding a large store of sensitive private data will remain both competent enough to protect it adequately and honest enough to want to goes to zero. –@mattblaze

Decentralise (in a kind of centralised way)

Once a month I am involved in running an informal session, loosely affiliated with Open Rights Group and FSFE, called Cryptonoise. Cryptonoise explores methods for protecting your digital rights, with a leaning towards focusing on privacy, and provides a venue for like minded people to meet up and discuss the state of the digital landscape and those that may try to infringe on the rights of digital citizens.

We’ve all made it easy for large enterprises and governments to collect masses of data about our online activities because we perform most of those activities in the same place. Facebook, Google and Twitter spring to mind as examples of companies that have grown to dangerous sizes with little competition. This is not paranoia. This is real. We make it a lot more difficult when we spread out.

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