You are so right about mobile phones and tablets-they are incredibly dangerous and thus I do not own one. Even a dumb phone is kept batteries out unless making a call, which has to be done from places my presence can be admitted to.
When I think of online activism, I am speaking of organizing people in ways that lead to boots on the ground, of posting news reports and communiques afterwards, that kind of thing. My news reports for the Baltimore Uprising were an example, and after the shit hit the fan there, I feared that the cops would try a general sweep for journalists as happened in another city after a riot. I had to escape and evade early, hurredly get all the clips into encrypted storage and wipe the camera card with random numbers. I also knew where NOT to point the camera, for instance at anyone breaking windows. I have gone out of my way to stay entirely out of the widely circulated hardware and OS databases kept by the ad networks and subject at any time to subpeona or simply purchase by any nation's security agencies. This is the reason for the extreme amount of browser lockdown. If Firefox gets useless, I suppose I could simply add all of Disconnect's blocklist to /etc/hosts and use Rekonq with JS disabled by default, opening only known safe sites with JS enabled and boycotting any site that mixes necessary with unsafe JS. On 10/29/2015 at 4:47 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 29.10.2015, at 19:37, set <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2015-10-29 18:22, [email protected] wrote: >>> I agree with this. No way in Hell I would set up a machine for >my sister with >>> Debian Unstable, and not one of the Ubuntu flavors are involved >in the whole >>> Unity controversy. >> >> Please consider writing a guide on how to use ubuntustudio and >what to >> think of when engaging in activism and source-protective >journalism! >> That could also make a great post on http://ubuntustudio.org > >Perhaps activism shouldn't be mentioned regarding legal issues. >"Activism" in context of computers has much to do with >"Distributed Denial of Servic", "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" >and some kind of hacktivism even is considered as being an issue >for free journalism. > >The averaged hacktivist doesn't need hints and the best hint for >unexperienced computer users such as journalists, is not to use a >computer for journalism at all and not to own a mobile or tablet >PC. > >It might be useful to clarify some issues with browsers, e.g. >problems with auto-completion of search engines, safe browsing, >but also when a sandbox is useful or not. Why wrong usage of >encryption and signing is more dangerous, then being aware that >data isn't safe. Even the man page of "shred" informs that the >default file system used by Ubuntu Studio renders "shred" useless. >Enabling popcon and stuf like this shouldn't be done. > >A high level of security and a user-friendly OOTB average desktop >experience are mutually exclusive. > >Regards, >Ralf -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
