# FreedomBox - Helps You Stay Free!

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On saturday 25. of May I gave a talk about FreedomBox
at the "Claim back your device" track of LinuxTag in Berlin.

LinuxTag is a fairly big annual conference
about (yes, you guessed right) Linux and related topics.

The FreedomBox is a project to help non-geeks care about their
personal privacy when online, same ways as geeks have practiced for a
decade or more.  Concrete goal is to design a small, cheap physical box
similar to an internet gateway or wifi router
but with three additions:

 * Easy and intuitive to setup and personalize for non-geeks
 * Offers routines to help you protect your privacy
 * Offers routines to let you help others in need of privacy

"Privacy" is commonly mistaken as "secrecy":
Privacy is to keep you in control of your information,
so that sharing or keeping to yourself is truly your own choice.

Thanks a lot especially to Matthias Kirschner for inviting me as a speaker!

[Slides](/fb/talk/linuxtag) ([sources][]) for the event.

[sources]: http://source.jones.dk/?p=jones/content.git;a=blob;f=fb/talk/linuxtag.mkd