from @MidnightMan
If you have been wondering what you can do make a meaningful difference, then I may have an answer for you. Urgent action is required to prepare the people of the United States for a fascist government to come into power, and by extension the increasingly likely prospect of a genocide, but I can’t do it alone.
If you are a knowledge addict, data miner, proficient writer, or an otherwise gifted individual, then this may be your calling. We’re going to be doing and learning a lot of cool stuff, but the work is tedious, and it will aid you immensely to be driven either out of passion for learning and personal growth, love of labor, or sheer love for your fellow compatriots. Several self-maintained application servers are being run to assist with operations and collaboration.
If you’re curious or want to learn more, you can contact me at [email protected] with a new email for increased compartmentaliation, after which you will receive a reply from my primary email. Our activities are strictly legal, but anonymity on your part is strongly encouraged as a precaution to retaliatory action. Interested parties should not respond to this message over Lemmy.
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The above message is likely an attempt to collect email addresses of people who might be well meaning. I would strongly advise against communicating with this person for the below reasons.
You cannot encrypt email End to End. It has to be stored in plaintext somewhere.
Yahoo does not offer encrypted email.
You have no idea of who will be emailing you back so there will be no way in which to validate your comms.
If you're looking to organize you can follow the advice below
For those interested in building networks and organizing folks to get together that’s even better. However it carries some risk so if you’re organizing use E2E comms and if you’re researching use Tor Browser. Better yet use a Tails USB on a coffee shop wifi.
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-signal
https://www.torproject.org/download/
https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/index.en.html
And don’t communicate over email, even encrypted email. Email needs to be stored and archived for it to work, often in plaintext so it’s never going to be a secure way to communicate.
For a place to start looking for aid and assistance. If there’s a fridge or book or tool share that’s not there, notify them please so they can update the site.
If you’re looking for a place to help, look up Food Not Bombs plus whatever city is closest to you.
http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/volunteer.php
I understand it’s an http site. Don’t sign up for anything that doesn’t pass your vibe check.
If you’d like to help undo all these info purges there’s
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Most of all, talk to loved ones, build community. We keep us safe. If you’re interested you could start a patrol and disrupt ICE stakeouts.
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/
It’s a marathon not a sprint. Sometimes it’s as easy as doing the dishes. Mutual aid helps your neighbors and helps you.
https://afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network
Self care and avoiding burnout is most important. They want us harried and worried and feeling like there’s nothing we can do. Fuck that
Email is insecure comms, it is required to be stored in plain text. Any keys or cryptographic elements you share over email are already compromised as soon as it's emailed.
There are a multitude of encrypted ways to communicate. If you are attempting to reach people on lemmy I would suggest setting up a matrix server and element instance much like what was done on db0.
You can also get a prepaid sim, sign up for Signal and then set your username so as to obfuscate yourself as well.
Again Email is the absolute worst way to set this up.
A Matrix server is one of the applications that I'm running, but I don't let any random Joe into my place of work. Manually PGP'ed messages over email is perfectly viable for first contact.
The PGP public key still has to be shared plaintext... that makes it useless as anyone can sign it after that. Again email is the worst way to do this.
If you cannot host a secured and sandboxed Matrix server, I personally do not trust your security hygiene.
If you cannot host a Matrix server that you can sandbox and secure you can absolutely still build networks over Signal. There are multiple articles on how to anonymize yourself on that platform.
DO NOT USE EMAIL FOR THIS.
Fuck. I thought I was paranoid.
At every step of the way, you've managed to speculate and assume that I'm using the worst security practices possible. Stop.