In the context of the publication of content by journalists, activists or bloggers, every time...
PrivaciQ - first edition
On March 18th, the first edition of PrivaciQ was held. PrivaciQ is an event that aims to bring the discussion on human rights in the digital sphere closer to the general population and, on the other hand, contribute to strengthening the digital autonomy of citizens through the use of open source and free software tools for the protection of privacy and security.
CAD signs interinstitutional agreement with Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas - UCE
January 27, 2023
In November 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (CAD) began conversations with the authorities and teachers...
CAD gave a presentation at the Faculty of Computer Science of the National Polytechnic School (Escuela Politécnica Nacional - EPN)
December 22, 2022
On December 22, our team presented the talk “Cryptographic Protocols for Secure Communication” at the...
CAD technical director joins OpenPGP Key Server board
November 28, 2022
OpenPGP is one of the oldest and most popular standards for sending and receiving end-to-end...
The Cybersecurity Summit at Universidad Nacional in Colombia is an event led by the university...
CAD visits Colombia (October 2022)
October 27, 2022
On the 11th of October in 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (Centro de Autonomía Digital...
CAD at the 18th edition of FLISoL Quito
June 29, 2022
On June 4th, the eighteenth edition of the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival of...
Recommendations for times of protests
June 22, 2022
The world is going through complicated times. Several countries are currently seeing dramatic upheaval, where...
The undersigned organizations and activists firmly reject the violent repression, arbitrary arrests and the use...
CAD participated in FLISoL Bogotá 2022
June 13, 2022
On April 23rd of 2022, CAD participated remotely in the Latin American Free Software Installation...
CoyIM v0.4 released!
February 17, 2022
Over the last few years, we at CAD have worked really hard on a new...
Fundamental security recommendations for critical infrastructure
February 11, 2022
The last years have seen a number of high profile attacks on computer systems either...
The importance of metadata
January 22, 2022
When we talk about privacy, the main focus is usually on encryption of regular data,...
CAD partitipation in Privacy Week 2022
January 22, 2022
During the Privacy Week 2022 that took place between January 24th and 28th of 2022,...
What is security research and security engineering?
October 5, 2021
Every single time a computer attack of some kind happens, the media and commentators throw...
What is Ransomware?
July 21, 2021
Over the last few years we have seen more and more attacks of ransomware, in...
CAD, present at FLISOL 2021!
April 15, 2021
Since 2005, the Latin American Festival of Free Software Installation - FLISOL has been held...
Introduction to Data Structures
June 1, 2020
The use of data structures allows the applications store and process information efficiently, for this...
Nextcloud through Tor
December 5, 2019
This article will address the problem of data privacy in the use of file sharing...
Two-Factor Authentication
November 29, 2019
In the previous article we reviewed some important concepts around password handling and how to...
What is Diffie-Hellman?
November 11, 2019
Communication is one of the fundamental pillars of humanity since its inception.
Secure passwords
October 30, 2019
Passwords are one of the most important tools to protect information in the digital world....
Mumble and Tails
October 9, 2019
In a digital world, internet calls have become an alternative for global communications at low...
Analysis of the Novaestrat Leak
September 28, 2019
On September 16, ZDNet in collaboration with vpnMentor published an article showing that 20.8 million...
OTRv4 Summit and PETS2019
September 27, 2019
PETS is an annual event, that holds each year informative talks of privacy experts from...
How can your organization protect against data leaks?
August 18, 2019
The last few years, many people have said that data is the new oil.
CAD Kickoff
August 18, 2019
One of the most interesting things to do when starting an organization, company, project or...
Centro de Autonomía Digital
July 29, 2019
Introducing the new version of CAD.
Ola Bini arrest
April 12, 2019
People working for free software and privacy should not be criminalized.
CAD at the CryptoRave
May 9, 2018
CAD visits the CryptoRave conference in Brazil, one of the most important events in the...