Cryptosporidium Rapid Test

Cryptoparties (CPs) are a global movement of forums where citizens can come to learn how to improve their digital privacy and security. The present paper is one of the few empirical studies on CPs and is based on participant observation of three CPs. I demonstrate that the organisers of CPs strive for an egalitarian space for teaching and learning. Even though this goal is not always achieved, CPs might still serve as an example of citizen education in a technological society where every citizen needs to deal with complex technological issues. In addition, this paper contributes to the emerging debate on 'doing internet governance', broadening our focus to include user-based and decentred practices. I argue for the political relevance of CPs showing how they enact decentred threat-scenarios to a non-expert public.

Chuetas are the descendants of the condemned Crypto-Jews in the last Inquisition processes in Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). Despite their conversion, they were discriminated against and secluded by their immediate neighbours. Due to their isolation Chuetas' genetic diversity was expected to be considerably low. Contrary to this, diversity found in most of the markers studied show that the diversity in this population is as high as in other Jewish or islander populations studied to date. Only in haploid markers, discrimination capacity is significantly low.