Our next meetup will be a beginner-friendly workshop in which you can train your digital forensics skills, intro and guidance by Maria included:

Maria recently completed her bachelor’s degree in IT Security and will facilitate this digital forensics training. The aim is not to teach all the fundamentals you would learn in a university class, but rather give a little taste of which kinds of disciplines exist in forensics and the cool things you can do once you you’ve mastered them. We will cover some of the basics of digital forensics in a short lesson, followed by a story-driven, interactive mini-lab uncovering the mystery of a missing friend…

The first part of the training will be held in English and online only. The second part offers an in-person and hybrid hack-together session. Details on schedule and registration below.

All you need to attend are a computer (or virtual machine) running Windows/Linux (both if you’re feeling fancy) and permission to install the tools needed on your computer. The computer does not need to be powerful – all labs were specifically created to use minimal resources!

You do not need experience in computer science, cyber security or digital foreniscs to attend, but if do have experience and want to dig further, I’ve hidden some easter eggs…

Schedule

The workshop consists of two parts:

10:00 – 13:00 General introduction & first steps at solving the lab challenges
This part will take place on a Discord server. Registered participants will receive the invite link a few days before the workshop

14:00 – 17:00 Hack-together session, continuing to solve lab challenges
This part takes place at the common room on ground floor at Hermann-Glück-Weg 6/4, 1120 Wien. Details on the location and environment under (*2). For this part, participants still can join remotely through the Discord server.

Registration

To register for the workshop, please fill out this Nextcloud form:

Currently there are still 12 out 15 places left.

Invitation policy and social conduct

(*) About our invitation policy and how we want to interact with each other:

The workshop is open to all women*, non-binary*, inter*, and trans* people, who are interested to try out Docker. In this case, non-binary does mean that you neither fully identify as „woman“ or „man“. It does not mean, that you only programme in fuzzy-logic and don’t use binary numbers. This would of course be fantasticly queer, but believe us, our computers also work with binary code most of the time 😉

With the * we mark certain words to point to the fact, that all these categories are socially constructed. That means, that they do not exist „in nature“, but that we humans interpret nature in this specific way. Therefore it is also legitimate, that people choose these categories for themselves in a way that best fits them. If that unsettles you or you want to know more about it, take a look at our article on invitation policy: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/einladungspolitik/ (currently only available in german)

Beyond that, we want to create an atmosphere and environment that is encouraging everyone. To do so, we created a Code of Conduct, that describes what we all can do, that no one has to be uncomfortable: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/code-of-conduct/ (currently only available in german)

In order for everyone to feel really welcome and accepted though, we want to be actively aware and foster a social environment that we describe here: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/sozialer-rahmen/ (currently only available in german)

Location

(*2) Details on the location and environment:

The closest public transport stations are the tram stations Eichenstraße and Marx-Meidlinger-Straße. Under the following link you find an excerpt of the wien.gv.at/stadtplan with the entry door to the common room marked: https://nextcloud.tantemalkah.at/index.php/s/HASFNEWsizRJWNX. In case you feel unsure about just walking in, you can also just walk around the corner and check out the situation first through the huge glass front of the common room.

The room itself is on the ground floor and accessible without any steps. The two toilets attached to the room unfortunately are not completely wheel-chair-accessible (they are big enough, but handles are missing). A weel-chair accessible toilet is available in the house’s other common room on the 8th floor. If needed, please write us in advance to femlimup (ät) diebin.at, so we can reserve the other room too. In the food hall next to the building there is also a wheel-chair-accessible toilet.

At our meetups we usually already have some snacks and drinks prepared. For further food needs there is a supermarket in the house, and next door there is a food hall, in which several stands also offer food for take-away.