Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts.

Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use?

As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? As a FOSS community do we do enough for the adoption of those protection mechanisms with our friends, family and the rest of the world?

In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol - what I have learned and what happened after I decided to give up. (a very short overview). Instead of losing my dignity and time with politicians, I decided to teach people how to fight back!

• The first part of my talk covers terms like zerotrust and what decentralization is.
• The second contains smart words and foss tools to protect your communication.
• The third leads you through a journey to fight the smartphone zombies by using alternative services.
• The fourth part will share some learning I had for trying people to adopt those protection mechanisms.

Take a notebook on paper to write some of it down.