{✊} Hack The System - Digital Activism Podcast by Acter

Jo sat down with Lucija Borak from My Voice, My Choice campaign to talk about their European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) and the transformative power of volunteer communities. How did people across EU come together gathering one million signatures for safe & accessible abortion? In this episode, Lucija shares her journey about being part of running this campaign, the unexpected connections she'...

You might face the same problem as Jo does: The laptop reports that her existing Windows 10 is running out of updates and urges her to upgrade to Windows 11. But the following check says that there are some hardware requirements not met, indicating she would have to buy new hardware. What to do? And why even is this happening? The hardware works fine, why does Windows 11 need other hardware? And w...

We renamed the podcast, but also focused a bit cleaner what this all about. This trailer briefly introduces the new name and what to expect from the podcast going forward.

In this last part of the "hit the fan"-mini-series, we briefly touch on privacy-focused of vendors of hardware and software, including Laptops and Smartphones. Additionally we try to answer the question, whether you need to upgrade your Phone – in particular if an App told you the Phone version was too old ... Notes & References : PinePhone Pro Framework DYI Laptops Slimbook Linux Laptops End...

In today's episode of the "💩 hit the fan"-miniseries we look at privacy regulation, in particular in the European Union, specifically the GDPR and the Digital Markets Regulation Act – what does that mean and what effect does it have for us "consumers". After we look a hard look at privacy-claims of Big Tech and whether we can trust those by looking back on previous claims they made, in particular...

We have a special episode for you; our Executive Director Emil Vincentz had the pleasure of being interviewed by Kathleen Chu f or her podcast Progress Reimagined ! Progress Reimagined explores innovative ideas, technologies, and emerging economic models that put humanity and our planet first. Listen now this great conversation about the challenges of digital organizing in an era of increased auth...

In this 💩 hit the fan mini-series we continue the discussion from last time and dive deeper into the practical aspects of privacy focused software, in particular what ethics to look for, browser and search engines

In this short episode, Jo and Ben are talking about what makes a Software privacy-focused, what to look for when making these choices and what drawbacks to expect. We'll also briefly cover the basics of how apps can track your specific smartphone.

Due to a mishandling of sensitive Information by the Trump Administration, Signal Messenger is in the press the last few days. The end-to-end-encrypted messenger is also very popular among activists. Unfortunately there is some misleading reporting implying that Signal is less secure than previously thought – we were also personally asked about this. Prompting us to make a special episode to discu...

In this 21min podcast episode Ben, Acter CTO and Lead Product, and Jo, Community Lead of Acter, talk about the Security of WhatsApp vs. Signal, share tips on Chat Group Security and what to do when you got compromised.

Digging into device security hygiene and best practices, covering the basics of encryption and password managers

Talking about the basics of activists safety & security of thread modeling

Short trailer for our upcoming mini series

Thanks for Joppe, who is joining us from Activist Handbook and talks with us about the problems of navigating digital activism

Ben & Laurato, two climate science activists, talk aout Loss & Damage on Digital Activism