New Tools require new understanding of privacy and security. The digital age has put powerful tools in the hands of activists, allowing us to organize on a level that we could not before. At the same time, it has created new ways to get ourselves in trouble.

Interactivist periodically hosts workshops on securing e-mail communication and other data on your computer.

Taking data and obscuring it so others can not easily read it is generally refered to as encryption. The tool of choice for this is called PGP (as well as the opensource replacement GPG).

These workshops cover the basics of what PGP is and why it it important, as well as how to install and run PGP on your own computer.

As well our workshops review the social and cultural aspects to online security and security culture.