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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 18, 2022
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=> ↺ Protecting abortion activists in Brazil
In August, we traveled to Brazil to learn how to improve Tails for the many people fighting for social change there. We trained 34 people on Tails: activists, journalists, feminists, and human rights defenders.
In 2015, I went back to Tails because I was working on feminist security. I started teaching other women how to use Tails, women who work with reproductive rights. For these workshops, I developed the idea of mixing Linux with jewelry to create patuás, a type of Brazilian protection amulets.
By saying patuá instead of Tails, these woman could understand much better what is Tails and what it can do for them. Let's build an amulet, a patuá, to protect you, your community, and your organization.
Tails is useful for them not only to work on reproductive rights but also for their personal data. These women didn't have computers of their own and used the computers at work or in school or the computers of their husbands and boyfriends.
When they started learning about Tails and the importance of privacy, it was very transforming because their boyfriends had a very bad influence on them. Their boyfriends treated them like they were not smart and wouldn't be able to work with a technology like Tails.
But I taught them how to install Tails, create a passphrase, and also share Tails with other people by doing a copy of their amulet.
=> ↺ What we achieved together in 2022
When digital security tools are too complicated to use, people make mistakes that compromise their security or simply give up and fall back on more dangerous practices.
Because journalists and whistleblowers use Tails to expose abuse of power and activists use Tails to defend human rights and our planet, the more people use Tails, the better we are all protected.
In 2022, we focused on making it easier to install Tails and improving many existing features, instead of adding new features. Here are some highlights.
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