Meet Me at the Opsec Rave (with Imani Thompson)
6/15/202653 min
This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by Imani Thompson. Imani is a digital security trainer and host of a series of events called Cache Me Outside, where she and partner orgs help people understand their personal security, divest from big tech platforms, and learn how to stay safe online. She recently hosted a “de-Googling” party and a self-doxxing rave. We get into how platforms have tried to make surveillance cute, why that damn Duolingo owl emotionally manipulates you, and why learning about privacy best practices when surrounded by community works. Follow Imani on Instagram A 'Self-Doxing' Rave Helps Trans People Stay Safe Online Now you can break up with big tech at a bar: ‘cybersecurity disguised as a party’ Fix It With Piggy YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/C4WVYBEIgzM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsImani Thompson· Guest0:00
And allyship, people believe that visibility does some type of service to people. That doesn't necessarily protect you or change your material conditions, but it does make you, like, super visible to people who are harming you or who seek to harm you. It's not protection.
Charlie· Host0:13
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Imani Thompson· Guest1:00
Hi.
Charlie· Host1:00
Thank you for being here. Um, FourFour readers probably know Imani already from our contributor Janice Rose's recent story. Janice went to one of your events in Ridgewood called 44 Deadname Not Found. Again, amazing name, not related to FourFour media, but such a good... How could you resist? Um, and that was, like, a digital self-defense workshop, and you were specifically there to teach trans people how to find and remove their sensitive informa- sensitive information from the