We are a nonprofit vehicle for the development of secure cooperative networks in Tucson, AZ. We have an educational and a charitable mission.

We run free courses, user groups, and trainings for everyone in the community:

• We have a searX instance! It was bombarded by bots, so it's password-protected now. Use of our search instance, here by any bot, scraper, or other automated browser is strictly prohibited. Humans only. That said: use 'wbn' and 'wbn!' for a private, metasearch pulling from all the major search engines (configurably). Thank you to our friends!
• We are participating in this year's El Tour de Tucson. Reach out to join us in making our tricked-out technology art bikes!
• B9-LUG (BSD, Plan 9, Linux User Group). Rescheduled from last week. See the public calendar.
• Coming up: Streamed show by Falcotronik, of the KXCI radio show Under Surveillance
• Workshop: Build your own bridge! Friday, June 13th at BCC. This ... didn't quite work, because David noodled with things too close to the start. We will try again.
• Coming up: Summertime B9-LUG (BSD, Plan 9, Linux User Group)! Happening Saturday, June 14th, at 2:00p at Tap+Bottle North.
• We got an invitation to this year's Security and Human Behavior (SHB)! Here's our talk description. Members, let us know what you want us to include, and we'll credit you!
• The first WBN watch party was on Sunday (03 May): OBS to Onion Service running Owncast. Worked like a charm. We will do this again. Please let us know if you have movie/documentary suggestions.
• We attended the 2026 iShowcase, along with some other local organizations. We hope to collaborate with UAZ on this: If you are interested in a pipeline for public-interest technologists who know what they're doing, let us know.
• Science City was a great success! Our demo. enlisted visitors to help us send a frame half-duplex across a solar-illuminated photonic channel (*cough*, we signalled across the road by waving flags) using SFSS. Welcome to our newest members!