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Privacy fail 101. Never, ever host on US servers. Too often, protestors just let the fascist dick authorities lock them away for decades because they have absol
by sacnoradhq 3y ago
Privacy fail 101. Never, ever host on US servers. Too often, protestors just let the fascist dick authorities lock them away for decades because they have absolute zero security hygiene and invite investigators to collect mountains of potential evidence to sift for which laws were technically broken to get a conviction.
0. Never use Signal (tied to a phone number), iMessage, email, or text messaging. Use Sessions, the fork of Signal without a phone number for anonymous group chats.
1. Never give out personal phone numbers. They are real-time traceable with ease.
2. Email if you must self-hosted on a VPS in Iceland or Sweden paid in BTC/LTC crypto.
3. Never use real names. Have a nom de guerre.
4. Leave your cellphone in a signal blocking bag in airplane mode.
5. Buy a gopro (in cash) and a chesty or head mount.
6. Never upload media directly to any site. Remove metadata and lower the resolution. Wipe source material and store it on encrypted media such as in a VeraCrypt volume.
7. Anyone who refuses to follow privacy procedures is either a naïve liability or a cop.
8. Anyone agitating for violence against specific or unspecified actual people is either a crazy fool, a dumb fool, or a dumb cop.
9. Hygiene is important, so do your part with an anti facial recognition surgical mask. Down with COVID!
10. That random person you met may actually be on a terror watch list. Being connected to them in any way, including being seen together on social media (now deep fakeable) is enough to put you on the radar of the security apparatus. This isn't speculative paranoia but what occurs routinely from on or before 2009. Friend of mine received a call from his boss who allegedly received a call from an intelligence service advising that a group picture on Facebook from an afterparty included someone "who's known as a Bad Dude(tm) from a foreign intelligence service." There's still a long game cold war just beneath the surface being played by ~10k people as rare as encountering a real Navy SEAL but you probably don't want extra airline checkpoint screenings and questions for the rest of your life.
https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/ https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/ <-- People commit felonies unwittingly without intent and lack the resources to defend themselves. This makes them easy targets for DAs and investigators to pad their stats.
"In the world’s most incarcerated country, some high-profile sex offenders walk free [because they're rich]."
- John Kiriakou (June 10, 2015)
- distantsounds 3y agodid you even read RTFM? the admin had a local copy of the database stored on his personal PC.
- rideontime 3y ago“RTFM”?
- sandkoan 3y ago"RTFM" means "Read The Fucking Manual."
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- soulofmischief 3y agoRead the fucking manual.
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- andrei_says_ 3y agoI think they meant the article, or TFA if we really need to abbreviate everything.
- timeon 3y ago> read RTFM > personal PC Is this intentional?
- nine_k 3y agoEven if not directly relevant to the case, it's a good list o opsec measures for someone whose relationships with powerful enough groups (not only a government) are strained.
- DarkByte8 3y ago[flagged]
- mschuster91 3y agoYou don't need to be a terrorist to end up on watchlists. Read up on "Red Scare".
- DarkByte8 3y agoI know about the Red Scare. After reading about Venona project, the fact that most spies in 40s-50s were almost all communists I understand how the red scare came to be and support it.
- GloomyBoots 3y agoThe government comes after people left and right all the time who don’t do any of those things. I’m conflicted here. I’m familiar enough with online “leftist” (especially of the supposed anti-colonial stripe) spaces to know how many bad, often highly illegal things are coordinated there. But I’m familiar enough with the FBI to know that their actual activities often consist of terrorizing political dissidents for no other reason than to neutralize their opinions. Without more information, it’s sensible to to default to innocent until proven guilty and push the FBI to justify themselves.
- DarkByte8 3y agoGive me 3 examples in the last 10 years of FBI terrorizing political dissidents to neutralize their opinion.
- GloomyBoots 3y agoA decade ago the FBI heavily shifted its focus to CVE, countering violent extremism. At that time, the focus was on Muslims and groups that could be perceived as proxies for their interests (Anti-War protesters, pro-Palestinian groups). CVE relies on debunked theories about radicalization, and its definition of violent extremism includes peaceful, constitutionally-protected, political speech. More recently, focus narrowed from violent extremism to RMVE, racially-motivated violent extremism, focusing on white supremacist groups--the definition of "white supremacist" being interpreted so broadly as to include explicitly anti-racist libertarian groups. Given that the FBI officially considers "violent extremism" something to be extirpated, and defines it so broadly that the majority of the activity falling under that umbrella is legal political activity, I don't really see how you can possibly make the case that the FBI isn't trying to quash dissent. FBI raids have a chilling effect on political activity, they know this, and they use it.
- voldacar 3y agoAlso you should run all your text communications through a LLM to defeat stylometry
- antifa 3y agoBut a self-hosted LLM. Any specific recommendations?