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Tactical Tech was featured in the January issue of Wired UK's print magazine. The article can be read online here.

Tactical Tech's Gabi Sibley and Maya Ganesh were in Amman, Jordan for the 4th Arab Bloggers Meeting (AB14) in January.  AB14 drew activists and bloggers together from the MENA region, from Mauritania to Morocco to Bahrain, for four days. Maya and Gabi led the Visualising Information track with 7iber and Visualising Palestine. 

Notes and updates from the event can be found here.

The Guardian gives Tactical Tech a mention in this article about campaigning and digital security in our surveillance society.

Tactical Tech's Security in-a-box was featured in Deutsche Welle's roundup of the Best Online Security Resources for Journalists.

The Committee to Protect Journalists released its' report on Attacks on the Press in 2011: warning of the risks to independent journalists: warning that they are “...endangered by technological changes, both designed and unintended, that expose them to repressive forces”.

Resistance to the proposed ACTA/SOPA laws led to a widespread Internet blackoutin January which we cover in detail in our forthcoming 10 Tactics Remixed site. In Europe thousands took to the street to protest.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation exposed the links between authoritarian regimes and American and E.U. companies that sell state-of-the-art spying equipment.

Stephen Nyash, the founder of the first ever slum radio station in Kenya has been murdered. Learn more about his life and involvement with Kenya Indymedia.

Dr Larbi Sadiki writes on the first anniversary of the revolution in Egypt on the “Humanity at its best was displayed in the square”.

Hamid Dabashi reflects on how “bodies have emerged as the singular site of resistance to power”.