This is intended as a collection of links to talks, videos, articles and handbooks related to CryptoParty, cryptography and why we should care about surveillance. Some of them will explain the relevance for society. Others are topic specific with varying depths.
| Language | Title & Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| english | Tactical Tech's App Center Videos | privacy related issues explained in under 5 minutes (by Tactical Tech) |
| german | Verschlüsselung einfach erklärt (Simple explanation of how encryption works) | YouTube version has english subtitles (by Alexander Lehmann) |
| english | Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' | the first Snowden interview, June 2013 |
| english | Beyond The Camera Panopticon (you're the product) | re:publica 2015, Aral Balkan |
| english | How To CryptoParty | recorded at initlab, Sofia, April 2014 |
| german | CryptoParty selber machen | recorded at CLT2018, Chemnitz, März 2018 |
| english | Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance capitalism and democracy | recorded in Berlin, November 2019 |
| Title | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Citizenfour | 2014 | Wikipedia |
| Democracy | 2015 | Imdb |
| Nothing to hide | 2016 | Watch @ Peertube; Facebook |
| Information: What are they looking at? | 2018 | Playlist on YouTube (more chapters should follow) |
| The Great Hack | 2019 | Wikipedia |
| Language | Title & Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| german | 8 Mythen zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung | |
| german, english, dutch | How your innocent smart phone passes on almost our whole life to the secret service (german, english, dutch) | |
| german | Wer nichts zu verbergen hat | Geschichten von unschuldigen Menschen die von Überwachung betroffen sind |
| english, dutch | Ai Weiwei is Living in Our Future (dutch) | Living under permanent surveillance and what that means for our freedom |
| english | Untrustworthy mailmen: e-mail encryption explained | clear explanation of the principles used in all modern crypto tools: asymetric encryption and fingerprints |
| german | Die Crypto-Wars 3.0 sind ein Kampf um den Erhalt der Demokratie | von Frank Rieger |
| german | Mehr Überwachung bringt nicht zwingend mehr Sicherheit | |
| english | We Should All Have Something To Hide | by Moxie Marlinspike |
| english | If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy | by Walter Kirn |
| english, german | Contra Chrome – How Google's Browser Became a Threat to Privacy and Democracy (free download available) | a webcomic by Leah Elliott |
| Title | Author | Year | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 | |
| Little Brother (free download available) | Cory Doctorow | 2008 | |
| Transparenzgesellschaft (Essay) | Byung-Chul Han | 2012 | available in NL/ENG/GRE/KOR/IT/POR/ROM/RUS/ES |
| Homeland (free download available) | Cory Doctorow | 2013 | |
| The Circle | Dave Eggers | 2013 | |
| Dragnet Nation | Julia Angwin | 2014 | |
| Data and Goliath | Bruce Schneier | 2015 | |
| Abfall. Das alternative ABC der neuen Medien | Roberto Simanowski | 2017 | |
| The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | 2018 | available in ENG/GER |
| "DELETE - digitalisierte Fremdbestimmung" | Capulcu Redaktionskollektiv | 2019 | GER |
| Language | Title & Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| various | Security in a Box | tools and tactics for your digital security by Tactical Tech |
| english | Information Security for Journalists | not only good for journalists; by Arjen Kamphuis and Silkie Carlo for the The Centre for Investigative Journalism |
| english | Surveillance Self Defense | by the Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| english | Encryption Works | by the Freedom of Press Foundation |
| english | Digital First Aid | by the Digital Defenders |
| english | Journalist Security Guide | by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) |
| english | Obscure Me: A Toolbox For Online Privacy | by the GPPi |
| english | level-up.cc | resources for the global digital safety training community |
| english/french/german/spanish/portuguese | https://datadetox.myshadow.org/ | different guides for increasing privacy on the internet, produced for The Glass Room London |
| english | https://freedom.press/training/ | guides on a range of relevant topics |
| german | Tipps für digitale Selbstverteidigung | by Digitalcourage |
| english | Accessnow.org | We defend and extend the digital rights of users at risk around the world |
Articles about CryptoParty directly are listed on the media coverage page.
| Title | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Michel Jarre with Edward Snowden Track Story | 2016 | YouTube |
| Systemabsturz – Daten daten Daten | 2021 | YouTube |
| airman – geheimer service {black cloaked version} | 2021 | Playlist on YouTube |