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Great looking event run by the @DisruptionNetworkLab in Berlin, still going strong after all these years:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/sovereignty-shutdown-autistici-inventati
I do take issue however with the 'No infrastructure is safe', tagline.
The key, in today's climate, is de-centering. When one org acts as provider, hosting at-risk orgs - however true of heart and intent - it ineluctably becomes a single point of failure. In short, they themselves become high-value targets.
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Education really is the needed evolution here, a primary motivation of the self-hosted server infrastructure trainings we're doing.
We see it work very well. The at-risk org, movement, group has operational mobility when they look after their own infra, making key decisions like which jurisdiction they should host in, when to host on-prem and/or in a DC, all as a function of their unique threat models, informed by risk assessments in their operational context 3/n
@DisruptionNetworkLab I can't go into detail, but this year we got an org literally up against a superpower off big tech & self-hosted in a jurisdiction where they are very, very difficult to reach via cross-border warrant, at least without going via the high court of their host state. And even so, in the historically unlikely event of server seizure, their data is an encrypted brick that they restore from offsite backups somewhere else.
Post training, that NGO is fully equipped to do this 4/n
So yes, there is a way through this.
As Crystelle from Nīkau so aptly put it, for millennia we lived in small, self-sufficient communities where technical skill & knowledge was held within the group, passed on across generations; building, gardening, foraging, cooking, tool & weapon making, medicine. For today's at-risk communities to not only survive, but thrive, it will be increasingly crucial to know how to deploy, secure & administer server infrastructure.
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Intrinsic to resilient & sovereign server infrastructure in an era of rising fascism, is that the expertise & means to build, secure & administer server infra are freed from industry (largely captive to the gov/mil/corp sectors), & put in the hands of at-risk communities.
By learning sysadmin & security best practices, the intersection of skills & disciplines these entail, communities can meet their own needs, on their terms.
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