PGP Talk for HelMUG

Yesterday evening I was with citylop (of HelMUG fame) at the Dasein in Exarheia. We were going through my notes for a PGP Talk which I will be giving for the Hellenic Macintosh Users Group HelMUG. We also signed up for the Dasein's event room. The talk will be on Sunday, April 22nd (13:00 at the Dasein). The official invitation and a signup form are forthcoming. The event will be free - maybe we will let a hat go round in promotion of the user group - but participants will likely have to sign up in advance.

I will hold this talk in Greek. Yes, that's right. The betabug speaks Greek, even though giving a complete talk in that language still scares the hell out of him. You can bet that I will rehearse a couple of times.

Motivation for this is at once that I take a masochistic pleasure in public speaking (preparation is usually so bad that I swear each and every time to never do it again, but giving the talk is really fun). Also we want to get a series of talks going in promotion of HelMUG, to further spread the word that there is a Mac user group in Greece and that it's good for Mac users here to unite and help each other. So someone has to make a start!

Oh, about the talk. It's titled something like "Introduction to PGP - protecting your privacy in email". I'll give a very basic introduction to the why and how to encrypt and sign your mails. It's not going to be a workshop where you install software yourself (maybe another time), but rather an occasion to get a simple introduction to what you can do, even if you're not a tech-head.