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 103 Understanding and setting up email encryption sounds like a daunting task
 104 to many people. That's why helping your friends with GnuPG plays such an
 105 important role in helping spread encryption. Even if only one person shows
 106 up, that's still one more person using encryption who wasn't before. You have
 107 the power to help your friends keep their digital love letters private, and
 108 teach them about the importance of free software. If you use GnuPG to send and
 109 receive encrypted email, you're a perfect candidate for leading a workshop!</p>
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 125
 126 <h2><em>#1</em> Get your friends or community interested </h2>
 127
 128 <p>If you hear friends grumbling about their lack of privacy, ask them if
 129 they're interested in attending a workshop on Email Self-Defense. If your
 130 friends don't grumble about privacy, they may need some convincing. You might
 131 even hear the classic "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to
 132 fear" argument against using encryption.</p>
 133
 134 <p>Here are some talking points you can use to help explain why it's worth
 135 it to learn GnuPG. Mix and match whichever you think will make sense to
 136 your community:</p>
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 148
 149 <h3>Strength in numbers</h3>
 150
 151 <p>Each person who chooses to resist mass surveillance with encryption makes
 152 it easier for others to resist as well. People normalizing the use of strong
 153 encryption has multiple powerful effects: it means those who need privacy
 154 the most, like potential whistle-blowers and activists, are more likely to
 155 learn about encryption. More people using encryption for more things also
 156 makes it harder for surveillance systems to single out those that can't
 157 afford to be found, and shows solidarity with those people.</p>
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 161
 162 <h3>People you respect may already be using encryption</h3>
 163
 164 <p>Many journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and researchers use GnuPG,
 165 so your friends might unknowingly have heard of a few people who use it
 166 already. You can search for "BEGIN PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" + keyword to help make
 167 a list of people and organizations who use GnuPG whom your community will
 168 likely recognize.</p>
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 172
 173 <h3>Respect your friends' privacy</h3>
 174
 175 <p>There's no objective way to judge what constitutes privacy-sensitive
 176 correspondence. As such, it's better not to presume that just because you
 177 find an email you sent to a friend innocuous, your friend (or a surveillance
 178 agent, for that matter!) feels the same way. Show your friends respect by
 179 encrypting your correspondence with them.</p>
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 183
 184 <h3>Privacy technology is normal in the physical world</h3>
 185
 186 <p>In the physical realm, we take window blinds, envelopes, and closed doors
 187 for granted as ways of protecting our privacy. Why should the digital realm
 188 be any different?</p>
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 192
 193 <h3>We shouldn't have to trust our email providers with our privacy</h3>
 194
 195 <p>Some email providers are very trustworthy, but many have incentives not
 196 to protect your privacy and security. To be empowered digital citizens,
 197 we need to build our own security from the bottom up.</p>
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 210 <h2><em>#2</em> Plan The Workshop</h2>
 211
 212 <p>Once you've got at least one interested friend, pick a date and start
 213 planning out the workshop. Tell participants to bring their computer and
 214 ID (for signing each other's keys). If you'd like to make it easy for the
 215 participants to use Diceware for choosing passwords, get a pack of dice
 216 beforehand. Make sure the location you select has an easily accessible
 217 Internet connection, and make backup plans in case the connection stops
 218 working on the day of the workshop. Libraries, coffee shops, and community
 219 centers make great locations. Try to get all the participants to set up
 220 an Enigmail-compatible email client before the event. Direct them to their
 221 email provider's IT department or help page if they run into errors.</p>
 222
 223 <p>Estimate that the workshop will take at least forty minutes plus ten minutes
 224 for each participant. Plan extra time for questions and technical glitches.</p>
 225
 226 <p>The success of the workshop requires understanding and catering to
 227 the unique backgrounds and needs of each group of participants. Workshops
 228 should stay small, so that each participant receives more individualized
 229 instruction. If more than a handful of people want to participate, keep the
 230 facilitator to participant ratio high by recruiting more facilitators, or by
 231 facilitating multiple workshops. Small workshops among friends work great!</p>
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 242
 243 <h2><em>#3</em> Follow the guide as a group</h2>
 244
 245 <p>Work through the Email Self-Defense guide a step at a time as a group. Talk
 246 about the steps in detail, but make sure not to overload the participants
 247 with minutia. Pitch the bulk of your instructions to the least tech-savvy
 248 participants. Make sure all the participants complete each step before the
 249 group moves on to the next one. Consider facilitating secondary workshops
 250 afterwards for people that had trouble grasping the concepts, or those that
 251 grasped them quickly and want to learn more.</p>
 252
 253 <p>In <a href="index.html#section2">Section 2</a> of the guide, make
 254 sure the participants upload their keys to the same keyserver so that
 255 they can immediately download each other's keys later (sometimes
 256 there is a delay in synchronization between keyservers). During <a
 257 href="index.html#section3">Section 3</a>, give the participants the option to
 258 send test messages to each other instead of or as well as Edward. Similarly,
 259 in <a href="index.html#section4">Section 4</a>, encourage the participants
 260 to sign each other's keys. At the end, make sure to remind people to safely
 261 back up their revocation certificates.</p>
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 272
 273 <h2><em>#4</em> Explain the pitfalls</h2>
 274
 275 <p>Remind participants that encryption works only when it's explicitly used;
 276 they won't be able to send an encrypted email to someone who hasn't already
 277 set up encryption. Also remind participants to double-check the encryption icon
 278 before hitting send, and that subjects and timestamps are never encrypted.</p>
 279
 280 <p> Explain the <a
 281 href="https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html">dangers
 282 of running a proprietary system</a> and
 283 advocate for free software, because without it, we can't <a
 284 href="https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2013/fall/how-can-free-software-protect-us-from-surveillance">meaningfully
 285 resist invasions of our digital privacy and autonomy</a>.</p>
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 296
 297 <h2><em>#5</em> Share additional resources</h2>
 298
 299 <p>GnuPG's advanced options are far too complex to teach in a single
 300 workshop. If participants want to know more, point out the advanced subsections
 301 in the guide and consider organizing another workshop. You can also share
 302 <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/index.html">GnuPG's</a> and
 303 <a href="https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/documentation">Enigmail's</a>
 304 official documentation and mailing lists. Many GNU/Linux distribution's Web
 305 sites also contain a page explaining some of GnuPG's advanced features.</p>
 306
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 316
 317 <h2><em>#6</em> Follow up</h2>
 318
 319 <p>Make sure everyone has shared email addresses and public key fingerprints
 320 before they leave. Encourage the participants to continue to gain GnuPG
 321 experience by emailing each other. Send them each an encrypted email one
 322 week after the event, reminding them to try adding their public key ID to
 323 places where they publicly list their email address.</p>
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