In August, the Australian Parliament passed a new cybercrime bill that increased the powers of law enforcement to require Internet service providers to monitor and store their users’ data. The country ...

On June 9, 2013, the world learned the identity of an NSA whistleblower who had secretly met with journalists Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill in Hong Kong and given them thousands of ...

"A lot of what we're talking about tonight isn't 'Here's how to make yourself totally secure and defeat the NSA, and you'll never get spied on.' It's about 'If you do these things, and if we all do ...

On a cool spring night in late April, a group of about 30 people have gathered at Creative Workspace in Harlem to talk about secrets. This is Crypto Harlem, a monthly cryptoparty organized by security ...

All over the world a brand new kind of gatherings is emerging:. Don't be misled CryptoParties are not some sort of morbid, Halloween-like celebrations. Those geeky meetings are in fact a good ...

The question of how to secure research data in times of large-scale online surveillance remains unaddressed. CryptoParties might offer a preliminary solution. Flyer for a CryptoParty in Santiago de ...

It was quieter than most parties. Everyone sat in orderly rows, noses buried in their laptops, squinting now and then at the projector screen in front of them, and returning to follow the steps on ...

Thomas Schreiber, 29, organizes CryptoParties, free skill-sharing events where techies teach ordinary people how to encrypt their emails and protect their online communications. Schreiber works at a ...

Learn how to make your online life as private as your irl personal life. That’s the idea this Saturday at a CryptoParty hosted by NYC Resistor. This weekend’s CryptoParty will be “a night of learning ...