I received some excellent reader feedback from last week’s post “Lower Your Risk & Strengthen Your Community,” where I encouraged everyone to disengage from major social media platforms and focus on making more intimate, private connections with smaller groups. Here
In the wake of last week’s political assassination, the leaders of the party in power in the United States have been very clear: anyone who expresses anything other than grief and outrage about that event will be pursued and persecuted.
Bloomberg is reporting “ICE to Gain Access to Paragon Spyware After Biden Order Dropped” (alternative Internet Archive link here). This is a harbinger what some security researchers have been anticipating: the deployment of commercial spyware against US citizens engaged in
[Written by the Executive Director of the Institute for Secure activism, Brian Stearns] I have been the security lead for the Voting Village at DEFCON for three years, at DEFCONs 31, 32, and 33. This incident report is based on
I’m looking forward to seeing folks at DEF CON again this year! I hope this post helps you find a good security mindset. Please reach out if you have any questions: brian@secureactivism.org Think about your threat model Your biggest concern at
Many of you may have seen the news headline this weekend, that a security researcher discovered a database containing 16 billion stolen usernames and passwords. The data allegedly included login information for Meta/Facebook and Google along with other accounts. The
In its purest form, a burner phone cannot be traced through any records to any individual or organization. This theoretically allows at least two people to communicate over the cell network “unattributably”. A true “burner” phone is a device that
General Device Recommendations for Protests The safest approach to electronic devices at protests is straightforward: don’t bring any electronics at all. Electronic devices, particularly smartphones, create digital footprints that can be monitored, tracked, and potentially used against you by law
