So this is why nothing really can get done online right? This is why IRL any rallies the left and right attempt get disrupted and nothing really ever seems to change.
General Safety for Noobs
Noah Powell
Carter Powell
Well keep in mind most of his technological advice is also outdated. For instance he talks about the defunct "Liberty Reserve." But specifically, he is addressing a few different demographics:
petty criminals
smalltime hackers
"""activists"""
His advice is obviously useless to, for instance, people in Hezbollah. So it's of limited use to amateur communists trying to learn real revolutionary techniques.
This is correct, he's not misleading when he says that security should be many-layered.
Levi Clark
Do you have any updated info?
Ethan Lee
Yes, I think this has happened to several people, here's one example:
thecrimson.com
A bunch of drug cases also come up on google.
Josiah Turner
HEADS - heads.dynedotorg
Should mention IceCat instead. And no, "settings" tab changes little to nothing.
Protip: about:config, uMatrix and don't even try, just use links and 9050.
Yeah, you definitely should pay a few bucks to another leaky, sketchy and honeypotty ISP.
OpenNIC and dnsmasq.
Use TOR(the protocol) instead.
Gentoo, Slack, Devuan, OpenBSD, Artix. Stay out of systemdicks not respecting your freedoms and shit like openssl and anything freedesktopdotorg related.
Risc&FSF approved.
Better to be on list than to be spied on. #staycucked
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Well hello censorship!
Andrew Bell
Pretty much.
The tools, tactics and procedure for surveilling, infiltrating, flipping members and breaking up these kinds of groups have been something that the world's governments have been working on for over a hundred years now. The fact that their resources will always dwarf resistance movements, and that their knowledge-base of procedure and tactics gets passed on to new agents is something that's hard to compete with, especially when it comes to online tech, which, let's be honest, any big tech company, be they in hardware, software, cloud shit or networking is going to bow to a government request for information related to 'a matter of national security'.
Lavabit is pretty much the only company I can think of that didn't buckle to that pressure (to protect Snowden, we later learned) and that's why that guy doesn't have a company anymore.
-> I was incorrect in that assumption, Ladar Levison started a new end-to-end email encryption platform in 2017.
All the same, if we'd heard about other instances of this they would be violating gag-orders. Levison is the only open example of this I recall, and look how the government treated him.
Bentley Phillips
Could you explain that to me again? That entire phrase flew over my head
Daniel Rodriguez
Not really, though I intend to do some serious research on the topic. My basic advice is: your phone's not secure, the internet's not secure. Facebook/social media is a honeypot. 8ch is basically a honeypot from how badly coded it is, and that's not even talking about Shady Businessman (but it doesn't gather a ton of stuff on you long-term, is probably "safer" than twitter for instance). Use the internet for learning and discussion, not for doing stuff. Install Linux. It's basically OK to post/repost propaganda and research on the internet, provided it isn't illegal speech. If it's illegal/semi-illegal be more careful about it, use some VPNs/proxies and be anonymous about it. Wait for China to start handing out encrypted quantum communication devices to enemies of the USA I guess.
Owen Reyes
kb.mozillazine .org/About:config
github .com/gorhill/uMatrix
links.twibright .com
torproject .org/docs/faq.html.en
Nathaniel Young
If you use tor which Tails runs on you're just drawing attention to yourself from making people think you're up to something dangerous or shady. I mean you are paying for your internet. Your ISP knows your traffic is encrypted. Anyone that thinks using a Linux distribution makes them immune to being hacked or infiltrated by a virus is an idiot even if they go as far as replacing the bios with an alternative.