Privacy

[tavalon]

Wow, big subject. Hope I don't meander too much.

Right now, it's not all that important that we be private. The other side thinks we are already beaten and they won't take us seriously. As well, this is the time we need to be recruiting and while it's a tad galling, I know, many of the people who are already protesting in the streets didn't vote. They are recruitable, so hard feelings aside, I think we need to be open about our resistance and carefully recruit.

Also, we need to network. Eventually, we are going to need to find our affinity groups and specialize. We can't all do it all. For instance, I have medical training so I should look into working as a medic in protests. I also love to highway blog, which often requires a group to pull off, what with look outs and assistants and so on.

When the other side figures out we are deadly serious, they are going to start watching us much more closely and I don't think it's hyperbole to say that they may well try to threaten us. They will certainly try to stop us.

It took me five paragraphs to get to privacy but I'm here. As we get organized and start splintering off into our affinity groups, it will be imperative that we find ways to communicate that don't include the internet or phones, which as you can see, we are quite addicted to right now. Now, in days of old, within our own history but also in any authoritarian government, the resistance needed to communicate without being discovered and they figured it out and so will we. Don't get the impression that I'm advocating illegality because I'm not and even if I am, I'm not. But broadcasting to the enemy is dumb. We aren't dumb, we are DU.

Some of the things I've been thinking about are PGP or some other encryption device. Codes, though I don't know how we would communicate them unless they are first encrypted. It turns out regular typewriters aren't being made anymore. One can get a used one but if you can't replace ribbons...... If we did choose to communicate by the US Postal Service, I guess we would need word processors, air gapped computers or heaven forbid, pens with ink.

I'm not a tech geek so I can't speak much to encryption or air gapping but I'm hoping some of you are and will. I know for sure that I haven't even scratched the surface of how we can communicate when radio silence becomes imperative. I invite you and hope you all will participate in this discussion. The whens, the whys and the hows of it.

I'm also requesting that if you don't think privacy is a good idea, that you open a different discussion. This one has as it's base premise that privacy will become vital to the resistance.

Talk to me, my favorite peeps.