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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City em

"Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media."

[etakeh]

I'm sure tumblr would never, but hey. No sense tempting fate.

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

I was a teenage anarchist during the green scare and so I witnessed it first hand.

Bounty Hunters & Child Predators

CrimethInc. Bounty Hunters & Child Predators Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy 2012

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants

Courtney Desiree Morris Why Misogynists Make Great Informants How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements

Green Scared?

At the end of 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements with the Operation Backfire arrests.

Snitches & Sleuths: An Update from Puget Sound Prisoner Support

This information was compiled from public arrest documents regarding incidents in the Seattle area and does not involve sensitive or persona

No Trace Project

No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveil

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

INTERVIEW: @nyancrimew on online privacy and operational security

Our interview series about practical tactics to keep yourself and your community safe from the rising tide of fascism continues this week as Josh talks with maia arson crimew (it/she), a hacktivist and past guest on the show. Topics include:

The mechanics of how corporations and governments identify and track you across virtual and real-world spaces

Common ways that your devices give away information without your knowledge and how to disable those features

What encryption is and why it matters, especially when it comes to law enforcement

Tools that you can use to anonymize your usage online

[nyancrimew]

i do bootleg cybersecurity for protesters and im both inspired by you and exhausted by how little is known about cybersecurity. i am not an expert or a hacker, i just like helping and having the 2 brain cells required not to discuss legal activities on INSTAGRAM

the point of this question is: how do you push people uninterested in tech/security to care more about not getting doxxed and charged? what can i do to help them? i did some basic scraping and showed one person how easily i could find all her info from her insta and that scared her into being better. but i dont have the time to do that for everyone

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveil

this site from the EFF has some really great and easy to follow opsec input, especially for protestors and activists (it even attempts to not be just US specific)

[victusinveritas]

There are people who have been doing this shit for decades. Take advice from them. The people at CrimethInc are great.

If you wear contact lenses, skip em and wear regular glasses. Tear gas and pepper spray can get trapped by the contacts and that's a bad time. In the milk/water vs tear gas debate: water for tear gas, milk for pepper spray if I recall the old maxim.

More below the cut.

A friend and long-time protester posted this in a comment:

"From my experiences I can tell you a few things

Keep all your info related to the protest offline

Don’t even say you are going

Don’t tell anyone personal info

Not even you’re real name

There will be cops among you

Don’t wear anything identifying

Wear Covid masks and a hat or hoodie to avoid ID and kinda loose but not too loose dark clothing with no logos or anything identifying

If you wanna bring something to record

Bring a USB spy gadget camera that does not have WIFI connectivity

Don’t bring your phone

If you absolutely need a phone

Get a disposable flip phone that has no Wi-Fi connectivity

And destroy it after being in one location

Other organizing tips

Avoid “free speech zones”

Those are areas that cops plan to box ppl in to crack down on everyone

It’s best to divide larger groups up into smaller groups all over the city

It’s easy for cops to surround everyone in one place

They don’t have the resources to handle it when protests break out all over the city

Also bring a few leaf blowers as they can blow the tear gas back on the cops pretty effectively

It’s also hilarious

Beware of ppl doing stupid shit

They are usually infiltrators

Do not ask anyone their name

Don’t ask for personal info, phone numbers etc

Anyone asking questions

Avoid them

Beware of anyone trying to get too friendly with you

If you are a medic

Don’t wear anything to indicate you are a medic

They target medics

Y’all will need lots of milk to flush out tear gas outta your eyes and nose

Carry a backpack with supplies and first aid, tear gas, food, milk

Etc

Don’t use your debit or credit card while you are on location

Cash only

But like I said

The protest is much more effective if it’s spread out over many locations

Than centralized in one place

Being in one place gives them all the advantage

There are much more of you than them so spreading out strips their defenses and are much easier to overwhelm a small group of cops than literally going against all the cops

Study OpSec

*Be sure to take the milk out of your backpack when you get home.*

This won't help with protest safety, but it will prevent a disgusting backpack disaster in your closet a week later."

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[verameria]

Reminder to all my consang folks to consider online safety and opsec in your online and personal interactions, ESPECIALLY people in illegal states.

This isnt a "you should do X or Y" post telling you to download Signal and live a life of soulcrushing secrecy, this is a post to encourage a conversation with yourself. Recognize the risks, what harm could come to you or your partner if information got out, and then decide what risk-factor you are personally comfortable with having and the sorts of actions you can take to keep yourself safe to the level of safety you want.

Not everyone should be hyper secure, secretive, etc. I actually think that we sacrifice so much of our ability to spread awareness, engage in activism, and our core humanity to insist on living entirely in the shadows.

Some people are going to have not that much to worry about, others will. Use your privilege to the advantage of others around you who decide to hide. Be louder, be angrier, be punk, but be safe.