Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

Reminder that the Seattle-based, anarchist, tech collective, Riseup, has a free VPN. It's powered by user donations and can help if your ISP is blocking sites.

- https://riseup.net/en/vpn
- https://riseup.net/en/donate

Switzerland-based ProtonVPN is another reputable choice for bypassing ISP censorship. Its free plan is subsidized by their paid plans.

- https://protonvpn.com

But if you're looking for strong anonymity and privacy, use Tor!

- https://www.torproject.org

#Privacy

Our stance on contact tracing is that it can be used to track dissidents, reporters, friends and families.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1266758240018276352

Looks like it is being used in Minneapolis to connect the dots of protestors, based upon this tweet.

Please reconsider your practices and software choices if you prefer to have your right to peacefully assemble be free from harassment and intelligence gathering.

#firstamendment #privacy #sigint #intelligence

i have put the thing online:
https://github.com/dkter/html-witchcraft
in case anyone was interested

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively painting / blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer directly in the browser, and doesn't send info anywhere:

https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/

Please Pay for your News https://goel.io/pay-for-news

(Tor link http://goelio7jh5nrmrss.onion/pay-for-news)

#blog #journalism #news

My dream for Mastodon is for it to be a viable choice as a publishing platform for any creator. In other words, for people to not feel like they're locked in to Twitter or Instagram if they want to be professionally successful.

Gang, it's time to come up with some new names and acronyms for what we do because the fascists have the upper hand on the marketing and branding of their authoritarian makeover of the USA.

This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests.

It will remove identifying metadata (Exif data) from photographs, and also allow you to selectively blur parts of the image to cover faces and other identifiable information.

https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/

What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?

https://www.wbur.org/npr/865813960/as-trump-targets-twitters-legal-shield-experts-have-a-warning

Turns out mainstream social medias are extremely US-centric

Everyone's all hyped about Anonymous but really, their glory days are long gone. The actually skilled few have long since moved on, and the current crowd is a bunch of skids with DDoS scripts.

The thing about DDoS attacks that the media fails to tell you about—they're relatively easy to mitigate and are only temporary. Besides, a police force losing its website is a non-issue, it's not essential infrastructure. They can function just fine without it.

america: why dont they peacefully try to change the system!

also america: 0.5% of complaints to the police result in any disciplinary action

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd.html