The Joan Clarke Liberatory Tech Collective uses, teaches, and creates technology in ways that aid the goal of greater freedom.

Education is one part of that work. Security information in our movements tends to travel by game of telephone. By the time it reaches us, a real but narrow flaw has become “Signal is hacked,” or a genuinely unsafe tool gets waved through because nobody could explain the difference. Confusion like that pushes people toward worse practices and easy mistakes.

So when we teach, we explain what’s actually going on under the hood, for radicals, organizers, and anyone else who doesn’t necessarily have a math or tech background. That way you can judge the risks yourself, using threat models that clarify instead of alarm.

Why Joan Clarke?

Joan Clarke was a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, working in Hut 8 on the German naval Enigma. She was one of the very few women doing codebreaking work there, and she was paid less than the men beside her. For a while she was even listed as a “linguist,” because there was no grade for a woman cryptanalyst. We named ourselves after her as a reminder that the history of cryptography includes people it tends to leave out.

Anti-copyright

Unless we say otherwise, everything we make is anti-copyright. Print it, copy it, share it, change it.