Good Company Venture | Founder & CEO

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

You can never be 100% secure online. But there are some basic steps you can take to improve your "default settings" and protect your communications from digital vandalism, crime and surveillance. This 2-hour workshop is meant to be a practical intervention, not an abstract discussion. Bring your laptop and your phone and we will install PGP encryption for your email, an Off-the-Record (OTR) app for your chats and the Signal or TextSecure app for text. Installs will vary between PC and Mac. Please note that you must have administrator access on your laptop to install programs.

 

Mike Tigas is your workshop leader. He has led many of these so-called install parties for journalists and others for groups and at conferences such as NICAR and ONA. 

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News applications developer | propublica

Mike is an apps developer at  ProPublica where he analyzes data for investigative journalism projects and creates news applications. Mike is also a cybersecurity expert -he created the Onion Browser, an open-source, privacy-enhancing web browser for iOS which uses the Tor network. Before joining ProPublica, Mike was a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and previously worked at The Spokesman-Review regional newspaper in Spokane, Washington.