A few years ago, a stranger snapped a photo of Mozilla social strategist Liz Hull from behind. They posted it to Twitter and tagged her handle: “Ooh, I see Liz!” she recalls the post saying. Their intent may have been innocent, but the experience for Hull was unsettling. “I realized I need to not have my location on any social media,” she says. It was the first time she’d given considerable thought to taking online security seriously.

Today, Hull and her Mozilla co-workers have gathered little more than a dozen women, from a variety of backgrounds with varying experiences and knowledge about tech and the internet, to pursue better solutions for safety online.

When I meet the group, they’re filtering into a starkly white event space in…

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