Forwarded from OTAS: operational thinking against the state
The Signal encrypted messenger being down off and on today is a reminder not to put all of your secure communication eggs in one basket. Though Signal holds a unique place balancing popularity with a trusted security ethic consider diversifying your secure communications so that if Signal goes down you have another means of more secure communication.
One example would be creating adding your contacts in a fallback network in the Zom Mobile Messenger app which is a fork of the original TextSecure encrypted messaging system that Signal is also based off of. It offers end-to-end encryption in a easy to use UI. Instead of phone numbers Zom uses emails to create and find accounts.
Or if you’re worried about service crashing for your burner at a demo using the Briar encrypted mesh net app so you can communicate directly between nearby phones.
One example would be creating adding your contacts in a fallback network in the Zom Mobile Messenger app which is a fork of the original TextSecure encrypted messaging system that Signal is also based off of. It offers end-to-end encryption in a easy to use UI. Instead of phone numbers Zom uses emails to create and find accounts.
Or if you’re worried about service crashing for your burner at a demo using the Briar encrypted mesh net app so you can communicate directly between nearby phones.
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Watering a field with condensation from a net or tarp above. Also check out https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/
Forwarded from The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
TELEGRAM CENSORS BLM-AFFILIATED CHANNELS
AFTER FAR-RIGHT DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 18 January 2021
In the weeks following the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, various right-wing extremist Telegram channels coordinated a campaign to remove BLM-affiliated and anti-fascist groups from the platform by submitting false reports to Telegram’s moderators. On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, owners of the targeted groups woke up to find that a number of their communities had been shut down overnight without warning or explanation. These groups were used to share information, resources and community in times of unrest and uncertainty. These groups date back to the George Floyd protests or mutual aid initiatives in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic. Their censorship and removal are the result of a deliberate effort by white nationalist groups to silence opposition during a moment of political turmoil.
Telegram did not provide detailed notices of any kind to channel owners, instead replacing all content with a generic message alleging a Terms of Service violation. While BLM-affiliated channels were taken down, many of the extremist groups coordinating the campaign were left in place, including “Proud Boys: Uncensored” (where the Proud Boys retreated after being removed from other platforms for violent activity) and “GypsyCrusader News Network” (a non-stop deluge of racial slurs, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and a man dressed as the Joker giving Nazi salutes) as well as the group "archived1488" which gloated over the TOS announcement on one of these channels.
After several hours most of the targeted channels were brought back online. Telegram has offered no explanation for the initial shutdowns or the reinstatement of these channels. One possibility is that the spurious mass-reporting by right-wing spam accounts triggered an automatic removal violation, but no actual Terms of Service violation was found upon review by content moderators.
Attacks like these targeting non-violent groups on the left exemplify the double-standard used to silence marginalized people and their allies. Activists use Telegram to provide and receive real-time information related to protest actions, to communicate with allies across regional and national boundaries, and to share resources ranging from recipes to first-aid training. Topics of conversation range from heartbreak over news of Black deaths at the hands of police, to coordinating support for unhoused people in their communities, to organizing mutual aid efforts for those affected by the pandemic. These community resources were taken down while multiple channels openly affiliated with far-right hate groups remained online and functional.
As fallout from the Jan 6 Capitol attack continues to be felt, we anticipate increased attacks on leftist social media channels as well as political targeting of leftist activists. We vehemently maintain that there is a fundamental distinction between groups calling for justice, equity, the end of state sanctioned murder, and an end to homelessness and poverty, and groups calling for the murder and abuse of vulnerable populations to aid in the dissolution of our democracy.
That fundamental difference must be recognized by content moderators at Telegram and other social media networks, and freedom of peaceful organization and protest must be maintained. Equating groups advocating for Black Lives or Anti-Fascism with those calling for genocide, murder, and race war to perpetuate systems of white supremacy only serves to assuage a misguided sense of fairness, and lacks both moral and ethical judgement.
JPG: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9806
PDF: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9807
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY TO PRESS & MEDIA!
AFTER FAR-RIGHT DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 18 January 2021
In the weeks following the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, various right-wing extremist Telegram channels coordinated a campaign to remove BLM-affiliated and anti-fascist groups from the platform by submitting false reports to Telegram’s moderators. On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, owners of the targeted groups woke up to find that a number of their communities had been shut down overnight without warning or explanation. These groups were used to share information, resources and community in times of unrest and uncertainty. These groups date back to the George Floyd protests or mutual aid initiatives in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic. Their censorship and removal are the result of a deliberate effort by white nationalist groups to silence opposition during a moment of political turmoil.
Telegram did not provide detailed notices of any kind to channel owners, instead replacing all content with a generic message alleging a Terms of Service violation. While BLM-affiliated channels were taken down, many of the extremist groups coordinating the campaign were left in place, including “Proud Boys: Uncensored” (where the Proud Boys retreated after being removed from other platforms for violent activity) and “GypsyCrusader News Network” (a non-stop deluge of racial slurs, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and a man dressed as the Joker giving Nazi salutes) as well as the group "archived1488" which gloated over the TOS announcement on one of these channels.
After several hours most of the targeted channels were brought back online. Telegram has offered no explanation for the initial shutdowns or the reinstatement of these channels. One possibility is that the spurious mass-reporting by right-wing spam accounts triggered an automatic removal violation, but no actual Terms of Service violation was found upon review by content moderators.
Attacks like these targeting non-violent groups on the left exemplify the double-standard used to silence marginalized people and their allies. Activists use Telegram to provide and receive real-time information related to protest actions, to communicate with allies across regional and national boundaries, and to share resources ranging from recipes to first-aid training. Topics of conversation range from heartbreak over news of Black deaths at the hands of police, to coordinating support for unhoused people in their communities, to organizing mutual aid efforts for those affected by the pandemic. These community resources were taken down while multiple channels openly affiliated with far-right hate groups remained online and functional.
As fallout from the Jan 6 Capitol attack continues to be felt, we anticipate increased attacks on leftist social media channels as well as political targeting of leftist activists. We vehemently maintain that there is a fundamental distinction between groups calling for justice, equity, the end of state sanctioned murder, and an end to homelessness and poverty, and groups calling for the murder and abuse of vulnerable populations to aid in the dissolution of our democracy.
That fundamental difference must be recognized by content moderators at Telegram and other social media networks, and freedom of peaceful organization and protest must be maintained. Equating groups advocating for Black Lives or Anti-Fascism with those calling for genocide, murder, and race war to perpetuate systems of white supremacy only serves to assuage a misguided sense of fairness, and lacks both moral and ethical judgement.
JPG: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9806
PDF: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9807
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY TO PRESS & MEDIA!
Telegram
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
Forwarded from Inhabit
"Liberating ourselves requires a new operating system and a different set of collective practices."
deepmay.io on building tech cultures outside and against Silicon Valley. https://territories.substack.com/p/deepmay-experiments-in-tech-autonomy
deepmay.io on building tech cultures outside and against Silicon Valley. https://territories.substack.com/p/deepmay-experiments-in-tech-autonomy
Inhabit: Territories
DeepMay: Experiments in Tech Autonomy
Developing new technics for new worlds
Forwarded from Underground Rebellion
Cracking Screens: A Scam App Primer
While we look for ways to mitigate the way technology mediates our lives, we also ought to find ways to hijack tech to get free shit and carry out new experiments in autonomy.
—
If we are slaves of technology, this is precisely because there is a whole ensemble of artifacts of our everyday existence that we take to be specifically “technical” and that we will always regard simply as black boxes of which we are the innocent user. […] Understanding how the devices around us work brings an immediate increase in power, giving us a purchase on what will then no longer appear as an environment, but as a world arranged in a certain way and one that we can shape.
—
Further Reading:
• A Hacker Manifesto
• Postscript on the Societies of Control
• The Exploit
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
• What is an Apparatus?
• Critical Metaphysics as a Science of Apparatuses
• To Our Friends (The Invisible Committee)
#zines #hacktivism #sabotage #cryptoanarchy #cypherpunk
While we look for ways to mitigate the way technology mediates our lives, we also ought to find ways to hijack tech to get free shit and carry out new experiments in autonomy.
—
If we are slaves of technology, this is precisely because there is a whole ensemble of artifacts of our everyday existence that we take to be specifically “technical” and that we will always regard simply as black boxes of which we are the innocent user. […] Understanding how the devices around us work brings an immediate increase in power, giving us a purchase on what will then no longer appear as an environment, but as a world arranged in a certain way and one that we can shape.
—
Further Reading:
• A Hacker Manifesto
• Postscript on the Societies of Control
• The Exploit
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
• What is an Apparatus?
• Critical Metaphysics as a Science of Apparatuses
• To Our Friends (The Invisible Committee)
#zines #hacktivism #sabotage #cryptoanarchy #cypherpunk
Forwarded from OTAS: operational thinking against the state
In light of failed the /pol/ attempt to instigate a trucker strike in support of Donald Trump and the very real Teamster strike underway in New York let’s take a moment to explore some potentialities here.
While the social aspect of struggles shouldn’t be ignored and is often a core feature of their power there is a power in blocking important logistical choke points for ‘the economy.’ There’s a reason miners’ struggle were some of the most impactful, they sat atop a critical energy source and exerted leverage over it. It is also not an accident that some of most currently militant and powerful unions like the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the longshoremen’s ILWU.
We can also look to the airport shutdowns that fought Trump’s muslim ban as an example of logistics-aware struggle that flexed its power. We can also see this in the train-track blockades that swept Canada in defense of tribal sovereignty and against devastating resource extraction. There’s also the example of highway blockades that have used logistics disruption to bring attention to BLM and police brutal struggles. All these methods have effectively targeted logistics to achieve their aims.
Just something to mull over in the coming days.
While the social aspect of struggles shouldn’t be ignored and is often a core feature of their power there is a power in blocking important logistical choke points for ‘the economy.’ There’s a reason miners’ struggle were some of the most impactful, they sat atop a critical energy source and exerted leverage over it. It is also not an accident that some of most currently militant and powerful unions like the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the longshoremen’s ILWU.
We can also look to the airport shutdowns that fought Trump’s muslim ban as an example of logistics-aware struggle that flexed its power. We can also see this in the train-track blockades that swept Canada in defense of tribal sovereignty and against devastating resource extraction. There’s also the example of highway blockades that have used logistics disruption to bring attention to BLM and police brutal struggles. All these methods have effectively targeted logistics to achieve their aims.
Just something to mull over in the coming days.
Forwarded from Strike Force
Nice introductory essay on libertarian municipalism and finding political empowerment through building directly democratic institutions in our communities. Send it to your mom or your uncle or your Q-Anoner cousin:
Why libertarian municipalism is more needed today than ever before:To fight fascism and climate change, the left must rebuild political life
unevenearth.org/2018/11/why-libertarian-municipalism-is-more-needed-today-than-ever-before
Why libertarian municipalism is more needed today than ever before:To fight fascism and climate change, the left must rebuild political life
unevenearth.org/2018/11/why-libertarian-municipalism-is-more-needed-today-than-ever-before
Money isn't real, it's just a tool that has been weaponized against the vast majority of us, pass it on
Forwarded from BlackBox (Security) Archiv
Help us kick Bezos in the dick - Boss Baby Bezos is at it again!
Amazon opened a union busting website for people to report workers unions.
So lets do the world a favor and waste Jeff´s time, money and live energy (i hope) by spamming his website with bogus reports.
Eat shit, Jeff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/kzckus/amazons_antiunion_doitwithoutdues_website_is/
Page where the submittion form is:
https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/contact
#DeleteAmazon #DickPunchBezos #amazon #unionbusting #union #pleaseshare #thinkabout #why
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
Amazon opened a union busting website for people to report workers unions.
So lets do the world a favor and waste Jeff´s time, money and live energy (i hope) by spamming his website with bogus reports.
Eat shit, Jeff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/kzckus/amazons_antiunion_doitwithoutdues_website_is/
Page where the submittion form is:
https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/contact
#DeleteAmazon #DickPunchBezos #amazon #unionbusting #union #pleaseshare #thinkabout #why
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
Forwarded from Inhabit
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GameStop is revenge for 2008
Forwarded from Strike Force
"It is only after a community affirms that they themselves belong to a specific territory, to this forest, to this river, to this neighborhood, and that they are ready to fight for it, that the possibility of a political ecology becomes clear. To make ecology truly political, we must ask the following question: what makes it possible for this or that community to live a fulfilling life, to increase its happiness?"
https://illwilleditions.com/re-attachments/
https://illwilleditions.com/re-attachments/
Illwill
Re-Attachments • Ill Will
Toward an ecology of presence
Forwarded from Strike Force
"It is only after a community affirms that they themselves belong to a specific territory, to this forest, to this river, to this neighborhood, and that they are ready to fight for it, that the possibility of a political ecology becomes clear. To make ecology truly political, we must ask the following question: what makes it possible for this or that community to live a fulfilling life, to increase its happiness?"
https://illwilleditions.com/re-attachments/
https://illwilleditions.com/re-attachments/
Illwill
Re-Attachments • Ill Will
Toward an ecology of presence
Forwarded from OTAS: operational thinking against the state
Deceiving the Sky also has a section on the 36 Strategies where they also discuss the game Go as an operational thinking figure.
Forwarded from OTAS: operational thinking against the state
Would you be interested in a detailed rundown of every one of the 36 Stratagems and every major applicable point in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War?
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Yes
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