GPG is the free implementacion of the Pretty Good Privacy system. This allows you to sign and encrypt messages to other people, and if we sign each other our keys you can also verify that the person you know is who actually wrote the email.

Send your public key by mail to anybody from the #slug, and come over next Wednesday to get more people to sign it.

Encryption is not as complicated as it sounds, check out this howto for making your own gpg key in case you don’t have one yet, this video tutorial for using Thunderbird Enigmail plugin, and this other tutorials for GPG.

What you can bring to the party:

• Little pieces of paper with your gpg key information (specially your fingerprint).
• Fruits, tea, juice.
• You don’t need to take your computer
• You don’t need to take your id (Yes, in all the howtos talks about the ID but we don’t need it)
• Don’t forget to send your gpg public key to the organizer

What you will have after the party:

• A list of people you can mail encrypted mail with
• A list of keys to sign and make a bigger trust ring
• More information about gpg programs and gpg security

Why we do this:

Is important to increase the amount of encrypted mail to make it more difficult to analize and decrypt. The safety of encryption systems is a balance between the amount of information to decypher and the computing power of the spy… if we have enough encrypted mail they will never reach to decrypt the more importatn ones!

Soon we are going to start a Pure Data Patching Circle” and that is the closest I can find to the nights we spent on riereta with dgepeto and the Pure Data Users Syndicate.

We are starting with a Pure data crash course, to honour last serious workshop, and the plan is:

• three sessions of pure data introduction
• 2 sessions of support to the students
• starting pure data weekly patching circle meetings, with lightning talks at the start and then working together and troubleshooting

people interested in joining the workshop, please write back to the #slug: slug@lists.riseup.net

people interested on hosting the workshop in some place where we can meet weekly and make a bit of noise and use a beamer, please write too!

Here a  list of texts about privacy online, for the interested nerds.

• Privacy and the Internet: Traveling in Cyberspace Safely: Long lext where it explaing most of the problems you face while browsing online. Good for beginners.
• Internet privacy: the wikipedia page.
• Privacy on the Internet: What can others learn about you? What information would you expect to remain private and unavailable to anyone with an Internet account? Are your expectations realistic, and what can you do about it? This page will give you some answers.
• Protecting Your Privacy on the Internet: canadian document about privacy with some tips on how to protect your info.

The slug keeps working, though we don’t spend time on writing up here cause there are not many announces to do.

We haven’t stopped providing some maintenance services to the squats around, so feel free to get in touch if you need a friendly nerd.

More news soon! Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, why don’t you have a look at this post: Why I Am Deleting My Myspace and Facebook Accounts, and You Should Too, from the techno tranny slut

Thursday 6 and 13 of November - 6 p.m.

Pure Data is a graphical programming environment to manipulate audio and video in real time.

Is Open Source and works in all platforms, but we are going to see some libraries that work mainly in Linux… so take your ubuntu with you!