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I unironically feel like the best way to communicate with co-conspirators would be through snail mail, if you could put up with the delay. Oh, and don't forget

by Mezzie 5y ago

I unironically feel like the best way to communicate with co-conspirators would be through snail mail, if you could put up with the delay. Oh, and don't forget to do all of this while not altering your normal habits at all, because sudden habit changes would also be a red flag I'd imagine.

ozfive 5y ago
Starting to send love letters to co-conspirators might be considered altering your normal habits.
- Mezzie 5y ago
  Yeah, you'd have to prepare for it by doing things like starting to read articles about the benefits of written communication, then moving on to starting to do other things by mail, and then start using it for personal correspondence. Or better yet, just have a long history of starting and stopping doing random things. Then you suddenly doing something new and weird doesn't stick out.
  - ozfive 5y ago
    Have your read the book "Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades"?
ipaddr 5y ago
The best way would be through a random developer's basic chat mvp
- Mezzie 5y ago
  Depends on who you're trying to hack/hide from. If I'm hiding from governments, political parties, or NGOs, then I might do something like you suggested, but since the greatest danger to hackers in terms of getting caught is other technologically-literate people, I would favor planning using tools my enemies are less likely to bother checking. Plus it means you don't have to rely on either your own coding expertise or the trust you have in your collaborators. If you're doing something illegal, there's always the trade-off of including more people in order to cover holes (since you might be working against whole teams of people and their brains), but then you're subject to your collaborators either making a mistake or selling you out. Letters are: A.) Illegal to tamper with, so unlikely to be caught randomly or subject to things like hacks of their own. B.) Possible to send or deliver without another human being touching it, seeing it, or saving it. C.) Possible to destroy quickly and in a way that won't leave traces. D.) Will still function even if your network/code is taken down. Then again, I'm too risk-averse to hack so I'm the person who would accept things taking twice as long as long as our risk decreased 1%.

by Mezzie 5y ago

ozfive 5y ago

Starting to send love letters to co-conspirators might be considered altering your normal habits.

Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, you'd have to prepare for it by doing things like starting to read articles about the benefits of written communication, then moving on to starting to do other things by mail, and then start using it for personal correspondence. Or better yet, just have a long history of starting and stopping doing random things. Then you suddenly doing something new and weird doesn't stick out.
- ozfive 5y ago
  Have your read the book "Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades"?

ipaddr 5y ago

The best way would be through a random developer's basic chat mvp

Mezzie 5y ago
Depends on who you're trying to hack/hide from. If I'm hiding from governments, political parties, or NGOs, then I might do something like you suggested, but since the greatest danger to hackers in terms of getting caught is other technologically-literate people, I would favor planning using tools my enemies are less likely to bother checking. Plus it means you don't have to rely on either your own coding expertise or the trust you have in your collaborators. If you're doing something illegal, there's always the trade-off of including more people in order to cover holes (since you might be working against whole teams of people and their brains), but then you're subject to your collaborators either making a mistake or selling you out. Letters are: A.) Illegal to tamper with, so unlikely to be caught randomly or subject to things like hacks of their own. B.) Possible to send or deliver without another human being touching it, seeing it, or saving it. C.) Possible to destroy quickly and in a way that won't leave traces. D.) Will still function even if your network/code is taken down. Then again, I'm too risk-averse to hack so I'm the person who would accept things taking twice as long as long as our risk decreased 1%.