Hi,

I am Rafael from Ecuador currently living in Argentina. I would be back to Quito on June after living 2 and half years in Buenos Aires. I came here to study a master on Computer Security. As part of the masters I did a research about the Snowden Documents in Spanish.[1] Now I am working in my master thesis about "Privacy and Anonymity with Free Software".

I have been using Tor and learning about it since 2012. In 2013 after the Snowden revelations we organized an event call "Minga por la Libertad Tecnológica" in Quito. There where some Tor developers and Orchid, the java implementation of Tor was released.[2]

During my time in Buenos Aires I started to teaching about tools such as Tor, OTR, Ricochet, PGP and Tails. I have published the presentations that can help others with CC BY SA.[3] Those training sessions where organize together with some Free Software Cooperatives here in Buenos Aires.

Now we are working in a project witch we plan to launch soon. It would consist of a website with information related to privacy and anonymity, and .onion forum for support and on-line training courses. The website with basic information and the onion forum should be ready for FLISOL 2018.

Learning to protect your communication in digital environment isn't something easy. Too much things to learn and too little time to understund. So we think that if can install Tor Browser, bookmark the onion forum we could continue from there.

I follow the tor-talk list since 2013, however I wasn't aware of this others mailing list. I also subscribe to community and training lists. However I find interesting to have a Global South mailing list so that is why I introduce my self in this mailing list first.

I am close to my 40s and I don't to live in sourville world for the rest of my life. I don't that for my children either. I believe that Free Software with cryptography are really important for a free society. I think Tor is one of the most important projects. So I think I should get more involve with this project.

Best regards,

Rafael

[1] Long version: http://bibliotecadigital.econ.uba.ar/?c=tpos&a=d&d=1502-0938_Bonifaz... Shorter version: https://rafael.bonifaz.ec/blog/2017/11/las-capacidades-de-vigilancia-de-la-n... [2] https://subgraph.com/orchid/index.en.html [3] https://rafael.bonifaz.ec/blog/2017/01/el-2017-todos-a-encriptar/