Attending a Protest
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For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during,...
  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Unfortunately, if you go to a protest and use your phone to communicate, even with Signal, the phone’s connectivity might expose your location.

    I wonder if there’s a way to use some sort of mesh network to get around this and avoid most people needing to transmit to cell towers

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    I would also do some work a day or two before a protest.

    Use a disposable phone or a phone that you wouldn’t mind losing or have confiscated. (personally, I keep all my old phones and use them for all kinds of things and maintain my main phone at the same time) … a good smartphone that is 2-3 years old is good enough for good imaging and video capture anyway.

    When preparing your disposable phone, only install a few apps and as few personal accounts and services as possible, then encrypt the entire thing and use a secure passcode.

    Preferably, I would also set up dummy accounts for everything … different accounts for social media or cloud storage or streaming accounts … basically accounts you can lose or give up if you had to.

    If you ever lose the device or it gets confiscated, don’t ever bother asking for it again.

    I’ve actually done this when travelling overseas. I don’t travel any more but the last time I did was about four or five years ago and we were starting to worry about border security confiscating or looking at our devices. I’m not part of any political groups or join any protest organizations, I am part of official political organizations but I’m not exactly a radical or anything … I just like maintaining my privacy and I really don’t believe that any group, organization or government has the right to look at my things just because they want to.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      45 minutes ago

      a good smartphone that is 2-3 years old is good enough for good imaging and video capture anyway.

      And it’ll get incredibly good battery life if it’s not connecting to cell towers. So even if the battery has degraded a bit, it’ll probably be more than sufficient.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I’d argue that using dummy account is mandatory, not a preferrential choice.

      If you have a phone on you with ANY of your personal data on it and a cop takes it, you should simply assume every single thing that the phone could access will end up in the hands of the proescutors to use against you.

      Don’t log in to ANY accounts that have ANY personal data on a phone you’re taking to a protest, and sure as shit don’t log in to any account that have ANY political/sociologial discussions or plans that could be used to paint you in a bad light in court.

      Make new accounts for everything, and only install and log in to the very very bare minimum. This includes using your google or apple account when you set the phone up, too: google and apple have an enormous amount of data about you and if they get a subpoena for it, and there’s anything anywhere that might be damning, you can bet it’ll get used against you.

      (As a side note: don’t use anything electronic to do illegal shit either, because your other accounts could also be subpoenaed if the cops have reason to think your real google account has what they need, and most JPs will just rubber-stamp shit cops ask for anyways. If you MUST do illegal things do not use electronic devices. Meet in person, don’t make notes/videos/recordings/post it on tiktok/wahtever.)

  • fxomt@lemm.eeM
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Seems like a mixed guide generally. It’s fine, just some complaints:

    8-12 random characters that are easy to remember and type in when you unlock your device.

    Ironic that this comes from the EFF. Passphrases are much better for this type of stuff, and diceware is practically the gold standard to generate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

    Install Signal

    More of a small complaint, but SimpleX is probably better if you’re aiming for as much security/privacy as possible.

    However if you will, use https://molly.im/ and torbot for android.

    Back up your data regularly and store that backup in a safe place to save yourself from a headache later on. If you’re storing your iPhone’s backups online, we strongly suggest enabling the optional Advanced Data Protection feature, which turns on end-to-end encryption for most of the data stored in iCloud

    I don’t know too much about iCloud but i wouldn’t trust apple with anything.

    Here’s some good alternatives: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cloud

    Dress for Anonymity and Safety

    No criticism, just FYI this is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc if you’d like to know more.

    I’m pretty tired so i may have missed or written BS on top, please correct me if i am.

    • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I’ve not heard of diceware before. How is it? I personally use a combination of password managers and short phrases which I encrypt using a specific method in my head.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      8·
      8 hours ago

      I would go with SimpleX and start building contacts that way, especially since the model strongly encourages sharing your contact details IRL via their anonymous QR code.

      Seems a good way to meet like-minded people

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    5·
    8 hours ago

    President Musk’s behavior is really boosting the opposition sentiment.

    Privacy is the back bone of civil society!