BTJ hosted an online Hacker’s Conference Update yesterday in the Netherlands where hackers from around the world gave updates on projects they are working on to get the Gospel into closed nations.
The BTJ Hackers Conference is an annual invitation-only conference often held the remote mountains of Tennessee. The conference began almost a decade ago when missionaries were looking for a way to get the Good News into North Korea using special techniques and devices.
Each year, BTJ brings together incredibly gifted Christians who work for IT giants like Google, Facebook, and Oracle as well as from government agencies like the CIA, US and foreign military cyber units, and even from NASA. These Christians combine their efforts and resources to find ways to get the Good News into the most closed nations on earth.
Yesterday, we did a small round table of ‘show-and-tell,’ where hackers conference participants shared the updates of how we are currently getting the Bible into places like Somalia and Bhutan. We also shared our newest devices for secure communications and secret Bibles.
One of the biggest developments is an invention that will help Christians in closed nations talk with each other without monitoring, without firewall interference, and without using existing networks. It is an incredible breakthrough that is currently in research and development.
