Civil Cyber Defense-Defend Non-Profits as They Combat Human Trafficking/Subvert Authoritarian Regime
summary
A university-run civil cyber defense clinic trains a 14-student team for six weeks on aliases, Tor, VPNs and a student-built Ghost Protocol cloud VPN, then spends eight weeks mapping criminal supply chains, delivering evidence packages and operational disruption plans; one partner operation previously rescued 83 girls while Project Key reaches about 200,000 teenagers on Discord with sextortion awareness and aims for 2 million. Clients include high-risk NGOs with Pegasus infections; outcomes tracked as networks mapped, victims identified, and arrests or asset disruptions.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Civil Cyber Defense intro
- 1:05How clinics operate
- 4:36High-risk clients and threats
- 7:04Tools and training
- 10:56Clinic as startup
- 13:43Client examples
- 16:49Google’s grant
- 18:13Human trafficking networks
- 23:07Mapping trafficking networks
- 26:16Project Key and sextortion
- 28:21Use your skills
- 29:49Call to action
- 30:11Q&A
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