<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks to all that came out last night to the Cryptosocial @ CRASH Space! Here is a summary of all that went down: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">We talked and demoed stuff for about 2.5 hours:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Byron did some phenomenal demoing of Qubes OS especially showing off how all of the VMs interact together, and we did some testing with quarantining USBs -> <a href="https://www.qubes-os.org/" class="">https://www.qubes-os.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Justin and Jay from Crash were nice enough to demonstrate and confirm that EXIF data especially geolocation is stripped from photos taken from within Signal (it doesn’t work if you take a photo with the normal camera and send it with signal)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had some rambling conversations about FB and GDPR (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation</a>), what VPNs block (ISPs sniffing) and data expiration / retention standards (we need more data retention controls and explicit times up front from data controllers!) <a href="https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf" class="">https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some rambling conversations about data forensics in images and audio -> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620" class="">https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20629671" class="">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20629671</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How to cross the USA border and what you can and can’t say (thanks Lee for the link), go watch this talk! <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9086-protecting_your_privacy_at_the_border" class="">https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9086-protecting_your_privacy_at_the_border</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Byron had a setup where we could search for our old usernames and account names and see if we had been pwned, similar to <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/" class="">https://haveibeenpwned.com/</a> (turns out I have been!!! [panic])</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Events coming up: </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peer to Peer Web @ Fowler Studio on April 28th -> <a href="https://peer-to-peer-web.com/los-angeles/2018-04-28" class="">https://peer-to-peer-web.com/los-angeles/2018-04-28</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Right to Repair @ UCLA on April 24th -> <a href="https://readme.gseis.ucla.edu/2018/04/04/april-24-right-to-repair/" class="">https://readme.gseis.ucla.edu/2018/04/04/april-24-right-to-repair/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Acid Free Art Book Fair @ Blum & Poe on May 4-6 [I’m giving a talk on artists working within libraries on May 6th with Katie Herzog + I<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">tza Vilaboy] -> </span><a href="http://acid-free.info/" class="">http://acid-free.info/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Tim @ LA Cryptoparty</div></body></html>