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The weekly town hall of the digital rights community, Glitter Meetups (GMs)are text-based and take place on our Mattermost. They regularly feature guest experts that participants can questions to directly. However, GMs are also a great opportunity to connect with digital rights defenders from around the world.


The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes.  team@internetfreedomfestival.org
* '''Every Thursday''' at 9:00am EDT
* '''Where''' On the [[TCU Mattermost|TCU Mattermost?]] Secure an account [[TCU Mattermost|here]].
* '''Missed a Glitter Meetup?''' Don't worry the notes of each GM is listed below.


We would love to have featured guests! If interested, email team@digitalrights.community


==August 30==
== '''Upcoming Meetups with Featured Guests''' ==
The following are upcoming Glitter Meetups with featured guests and/or topics every Thursday:


* The Police Department of Bangladesh Government opens a tender. The tender notice is to procure IMSI mobile monitoring/tracking systems, including its ultra-portable backpack version. “IMSI” stands for “international mobile subscriber identity” and the devices in question are basically eavesdropping gadgets used for intercepting mobile phone and its data traffic, as well as tracking location data of mobile users. If I’m not wrong, they essentially create a "fake" mobile tower acting between the target mobile phone and the service provider's real towers to intercept communication related data. http://bangla.cptu.gov.bd/advertisement-goods/details-60402.htmla


* The SecureDrop project is going to have 0.9.0 release on September 5th. If anyone wants to help in translation, they can help by joining the localization-lab-chat channel.
'''[[April 10 2025 GM|April 10, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


* Woman group in Zimbabwe is looking to start their own radio channel. If you have resources or good educational materials, let them know
Topic: '''Network measurements - How to gather and use evidence of an internet shutdown happening in your country?'''


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Featured Guest: '''Elizaveta'''
 
 
'''[[April 17 2025 GM|April 17, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''
 
''The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup''
 
 
'''[[April 24 2025 GM|April 24, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''
 
Topic: '''The Sound of Independence: Building Your Own Music Streaming Service'''
 
Featured Guest: '''Raphael Mimoun'''
 
 
[[May 1 2025 GM|'''May 1, 2025 Glitter Meetup''']]
 
''The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world''
 
 
[[May 8 2025 GM|'''May 8, 2025 Glitter Meetup''']]
 
Topic: '''DRAPAC VPN Project Protects Human Rights Defenders From Censorship And Surveillance'''
 
Featured Guest: '''Meg, EngageMedia Program Coordinator'''
 
 
'''[[May 15 2025 GM|May 15, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''
 
''The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup''
 
=='''Notes from Past Glitter Meetups'''==
 
The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes: team@digitalrights.community


* Notes from talk from Nathaly on Cyber Feminist Radio projects/infrastructure:
'''[[April 3 2025 GM|April 3, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


- When conducting an interview, if the person you are interviewing has to be extra careful about their privacy and/or security, someone from the radio crew will talk as them, recreating their voice. (ie, so at no time do they use the person's voice)
''The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world''


- Always use safe channels online and offline to talk to your interviewers
'''[[March 27 2025 GM|March 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


- They do have some channels like a cyberfeminist mail list and one of the rules is to have a secure mail like rise up, and we use PGP all the time to share information.
Topic: '''Target Threats Research - A Breakdown of 3 Years of Civil Society Threat Research in South & North Korea'''


'''Tools that can be used to create your own radio:'''  
Featured Guest: '''Ovi'''


Software: Audio editing: Audacity or arduor


streaming: Radiolibre.co https://liberaturadio.org/ or https://kefir.red/
'''[[March 20 2025 GM|March 20, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


''The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup''
'''[[March 13 2025 GM|March 13, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


'''Educational Manuals in Spanish:'''
Curso virtual: feminicidio y periodismo  https://radioslibres.net/curso-virtual-feminicidio-y-periodismo/


Despatriarcalizar la Comunicación: periodismo inclusivo  https://radioslibres.net/despatriarcalizar-comunicacion-periodismo-inclusiv/
'''[[March 13 2025 GM|March 13, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


Escuela ciberfeminista https://escuelafeminista.red/
Topic: '''The Digital Security School'''


Featured Guest: '''Sebastien'''
'''[[March 6 2025 GM|March 6, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


'''Recommended Feminist Radio Channels'''


''In English:''  
'''[[March 6 2025 GM|March 6, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


https://soundcloud.com/icalondon/black-feminism-and-post-cyber
''The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world''
'''[[February 27 2025 GM|February 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


''In Spanish:''


Enchufadas: https://radiocut.fm/audiocut/enchufadas-autodefensa-digital-1/
'''[[February 27 2025 GM|February 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


Encuentro de ciberfeminismo Ecuador
Topic: '''The Hong Kong Accountability Archive'''
https://soundcloud.com/tristanaproducciones/encuentro-ciberfeminismo


El desarmador https://eldesarmador.org/
Featured Guest: '''The Hong Kong Accountability Archive'''


Cyborg feminista radio https://cyborgfeminista.tedic.org/tag/radio/


Wambra radio:  http://ciberfeminismo.elchuro.org/cobertura/
<code>As a result of funding freezes, GMs of February 6, 13, and 20 where dedicated to helping furloughed employees update their resumes.</code>


tropica media  http://tropicamedia.org/


La Radio q genero http://www.laqradiogenero.com/
'''[[January 30 2025 GM|January 30, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


=='''August 23'''==
Topic: '''Undersea Cables in Africa - New Frontiers for Digital Colonialism'''


* Someone is trying to apply SAFETAG for LGBTQ communities in South Asia.
Featured Guest: Laurisha Rampersad and Kayee Au
* Totem project is an online platform helping journalists and activists use digital security & privacy tools and tactics more effectively in their work by Greenhost and FreePressUnlimited.  https://totem-project.org/
'''[[January 23 2025 GM|January 23, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''
* Malaysian Parliament passes bill to repeal Anti-Fake News Act last week
* IFF Fellowship deadline has been extended to August 27.
* In Zimbabwe, there was a constitutional court hearing yesterday for the just ended elections where the opposition party is challenging the results that were announced. Judgement will be announced tomorrow at 1400hrs UTC+2
* Someone is working on a due process (appeals) campaign targeting social media platforms (primarily Facebook) and would love to chat off-list with anyone interested or working on similar things.
* The Tor meeting will be happening in Mexico end of September.


'''About Safetag:'''
'''[[January 23 2025 GM|January 23, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''
* SAFETAG is an assessment framework to work with organizations and help them build informed decisions about the risks they face. It provides a wide variety of different activities: some very research focused, like understanding the context the organization is working within -- each organization has a totally different set of risks depending on their context; Some are very technical, such as scanning office networks to understand what systems and traffic are on the network; and many are "interpersonal" -- simply talking to staff members, interviewing management, and running exercises to help the organization build a cohesive and shared understanding of their risks and which of them they accept, and which they want to prioritize to mitigate.


* In the best case, you should have a few people helping out -- one person who has a more digisec training background, and another who's happier sitting in the back room hacking around on things.  Often funding and scheduling mean that one person has to do all three, so careful planning and preparation are important -- you do NOT want to be researching how to nmap an organization without crashing their computers in the middle of an assessment. In addition, there is value and more impact if the audit is done by more people with different skills other than a single person.
''The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world''
'''[[January 16 2025 GM|January 16, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


* SAFETAG scoping questions are really good to help people understand their risks.
'''[[January 16 2025 GM|January 16, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


* Some folks have it customized for working with LGTBQ in West Africa.
Topic: '''Bitpart: Sending Secure Automated Messages Over Signal'''


* SAFETAG wants to be community owned, but depends on people taking ownership/participating.
Featured Guest: Throneless Tech
'''[[January 9 2025 GM|January 9, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


* Even though someone might be from a different parts of the world, so many common problems come up that are similar.  So you may think your approach only applies to some super specific situation, but almost guaranteed someone else is facing the same problem
'''[[January 9 2025 GM|January 9, 2025 Glitter Meetup]]'''


* Best tips, for network scanning - (a) be careful and  (b) keep it balanced. A lot of the tools, even "simple" nmap, have a lot of super dangerous options, and you really never know if a computer is going to be vulnerable to a 10-year-old bug. Start super lightweight, and super low-impact, even flooding a system that may be a few years out of date can cause it to fail, and then you're suddenly halfway through an audit and have to stop to fix something you broke. Look at software versions, and peek via nmap on weird ports being open before doing anything more intense
''Welcome back Glitter Meetup''


* The other big tip is to not get trapped in any one approach. People with hacking/pentesting backgrounds tend to ignore the interactive parts, and people with training backgrounds tend to shy away from the technical pieces. It takes both, plus a solid base of research, to really understand an organization. Also, and super important, you can also spend a LOT of time digging in to some really obscure tech things, and lose the opportunity to ensure you have a holistic view of the org.
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  '''[[Glitter Meetup Notes 2024]]'''


* The SAFETAG translation in Spanish is out of date. Ping them if you can help identify chunks to prioritize for funding.
'''[[Glitter Meetup Notes 2023]]'''


* Re: network scanning, a super fun thing to do (but requires a system with a decent chunk of RAM and a few hours of access to a lot of bandwidth) is to download some vm images. vulnhub is a good repository, and MS has some testing images for old versions of windows (see the safetag reference file here for links: https://github.com/SAFETAG/SAFETAG/blob/master/en/references/network_env.adids.md). Use virtualbox to run them locally and have them all on your local network, and then you can use nmap and such locally (do this at home, you can even have it set up to truly be a "fake" network on your computer only -- do NOT do it on a shared or work network!!) This is a great way to get started exploring and using different scanning options
  '''[[Glitter Meetup Notes 2022]]'''


'''[[Glitter Meetup Notes 2021]]'''


=='''August 16'''==
'''[[Glitter Meetup Notes 2020]]'''


* New org in latin america in the works ( Con-nexo). They will be developing projects on capacity building on security, research, security support to organizations, tool development and community generation around communities at risk and security in general.
'''[[Glitter Meetup Notes Before March 26, 2020]]'''
* Lots of love happening for SAFETAG fellowship
* Zimbabwe still doesnt' have a president even after voting
* Found out Digital Society of Zimbabwe was born in the IFF :)
* Folks working on security investigation framework in tails. Prototype coming soon! Github here: https://gitlab.com/scif/whiskers
* Blog posts coming out taimed at helping new auditors get in the SAFETAG mindset; as it can be very overwhelming to try and tackle the guide as it exists now
* Someone who did research on digital censorship in post-soviet states and how each country's approach differs (about a third have very free internet and about a third have internet censorship in place), is currently talking to a publisher about turning it into a book on the history of censorship in the region.
* Someone is cultivating digital security trainers to assist HRDs in Southeast Asia as many trainers are still flown in.
* Past DIF Folks asking that a community is created so they can further connect.
* Various games made by people in the community such as BLOOG: how formal and informal groups interact in crisis. we called it ENCAPE http://blog.bl00cyb.org/2017/08/interfaces-between-formal-and-informal-crisis-response/, Malicious Content, the infosec card game like Cards against humanit, and the depressing, Cards against Humanitarians" -- now JadedAid -- http://jadedaid.com/).
* First alpha version Tor Browser coming out soon!
* Maybe a hackathon with artist, process oriented.

Latest revision as of 14:09, 3 April 2025

The weekly town hall of the digital rights community, Glitter Meetups (GMs)are text-based and take place on our Mattermost. They regularly feature guest experts that participants can questions to directly. However, GMs are also a great opportunity to connect with digital rights defenders from around the world.

  • Every Thursday at 9:00am EDT
  • Where On the TCU Mattermost? Secure an account here.
  • Missed a Glitter Meetup? Don't worry the notes of each GM is listed below.
We would love to have featured guests! If interested, email team@digitalrights.community

Upcoming Meetups with Featured Guests

The following are upcoming Glitter Meetups with featured guests and/or topics every Thursday:


April 10, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Network measurements - How to gather and use evidence of an internet shutdown happening in your country?

Featured Guest: Elizaveta


April 17, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup


April 24, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: The Sound of Independence: Building Your Own Music Streaming Service

Featured Guest: Raphael Mimoun


May 1, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world


May 8, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: DRAPAC VPN Project Protects Human Rights Defenders From Censorship And Surveillance

Featured Guest: Meg, EngageMedia Program Coordinator


May 15, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup

Notes from Past Glitter Meetups

The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes: team@digitalrights.community

April 3, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world

March 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Target Threats Research - A Breakdown of 3 Years of Civil Society Threat Research in South & North Korea

Featured Guest: Ovi


March 20, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The monthly global Digital Rights community networking meetup March 13, 2025 Glitter Meetup


March 13, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: The Digital Security School

Featured Guest: Sebastien March 6, 2025 Glitter Meetup


March 6, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world February 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup


February 27, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: The Hong Kong Accountability Archive

Featured Guest: The Hong Kong Accountability Archive


As a result of funding freezes, GMs of February 6, 13, and 20 where dedicated to helping furloughed employees update their resumes.


January 30, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Undersea Cables in Africa - New Frontiers for Digital Colonialism

Featured Guest: Laurisha Rampersad and Kayee Au January 23, 2025 Glitter Meetup

January 23, 2025 Glitter Meetup

The collaborative community discussion on what is Happening in Digital Rights around the world January 16, 2025 Glitter Meetup

January 16, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Bitpart: Sending Secure Automated Messages Over Signal

Featured Guest: Throneless Tech January 9, 2025 Glitter Meetup

January 9, 2025 Glitter Meetup

Welcome back Glitter Meetup 

Glitter Meetup Notes 2024

Glitter Meetup Notes 2023

Glitter Meetup Notes 2022

Glitter Meetup Notes 2021

Glitter Meetup Notes 2020

Glitter Meetup Notes Before March 26, 2020
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