Unpopular opinion: an activist for a cause is better protected by having 500k (real) Twitter followers than by end 2 end encryption.
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Replying to @thegrugq
I know someone who has a real threat to his life who literally uttered that sentence (with a different number).
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but a lot of states have learned to go for the second and third tier "follower count" people, leaving alone 100k+ people.
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The e2e is necessary, but for personal privacy which is very political to activists. They want to protect their mom.
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Replying to @zeynep
absolutely agree. For all individuals, encryption is important. It isn’t a critical element of activism though…
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Replying to @thegrugq
I'd say it's critical, but in a very different way than envisioned. I might trade it for cryptographic verification of metadata.
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Replying to @zeynep
this is different, but no one wants to build these sorts of tools. Proving a digital image is authentic is less sexy than OPSEC work
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Doesn't Guardian Project do this sort of thing?
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Or Witness.
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Some attempts, I've talked with witness folks. Need it seamless with platforms. Tall order.
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