This newsletter includes: the Least Authority Team Summit 2022, a blog about our human centered design approach to product development, our security audit of Keep Network’s tBTC Bridge v2, and more. 

Team Summit 2022

In mid-October, over 50 Least Authoritarians convened in Berlin for our Team Summit. It was an opportunity for our mostly remote team to connect, inspire and ideate, while creating a roadmap and shared vision for our future efforts.

Through a series of workshops, expertly facilitated by Aspiration’s Allen Gunn (‘Gunner’), we collectively identified our strengths and avenues for improvement as an organization, as well as exploring ways to collaborate more effectively as a remote team and continue to work towards our mission.

Human Centered Design

Our latest blog discusses Least Authority’s approach to human centered design and explains why, alongside security- and privacy-by-design, we believe it is a key approach to product development. We also examine how we’ve adapted this approach for two projects we’ve worked on: File storage and sharing for human rights defenders and Winden, a recently released secure file transfer application.

Last month we released the Secure File Transfer apps Destiny and Winden (in beta) and want you to try them out. And we want your feedback!

Both apps use the Magic Wormhole protocol to allow private, secure file transfers at speed. They are both identity-free, meaning that senders and receivers don't need to know each other's identity to use it, and the apps do not require people to sign up or log in. They also ensure files are end-to-end encrypted. Since file transfers happen in real-time between two devices, the files are never stored on our servers.

Read more about Winden here and Destiny here.

If you’re passionate about privacy and internet security and are motivated to work in a remote-first environment, we encourage you to apply or to reach out to a member of our team to learn more about the exciting vacancies we currently have:

• Security / Cryptography Researcher & Engineer
  
• Smart Contracts Security Researcher & Engineer (Multiple Languages)
  
• Tech Lead, Zero-Knowledge Access Passes (ZKAPs) Service
• Senior Bookkeeper and Administrative Coordinator - US Office

We also accept general applications. If you think you’d make a great addition to our team, we encourage you to introduce yourself to us for future consideration [How to apply].

As firm believers in the protection of our users’ privacy, we developed PrivateStorage as a private, secure and end-to-end encrypted storage solution that minimizes the collection of data related to its users. PrivateStorage implements privacy and security by design, not by policy. We cannot see your data when it is stored by us.

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We welcome your questions, comments, suggestions,
and friendly greetings at contactus@leastauthority.com

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