[liberationtech] A modest proposal for protecting the work (and freedom) of activists.

[Nicolás Reynolds]

Kate Krauss <katie at critpath.org> writes:

> Dear Liberationists:
>
> I'm an non-technical activist who works with communities with serious
> threat models who just published *“A Modest Proposal for Encrypting
> the Work of Activists.*”
>
> https://medium.com/p/f561c5260bf3
>
> See what you think. It's not a pretty solution, and it's not meant to
> compete with others (let a thousand flowers bloom) but I think it
> would work for us. It's a four-minute read.

i think the problem is two fold: sometimes you try to explain something
the other person doesn't really want to understand.  it's frustrating
for both :)

in my opinion and having watched how people adopts insecure and
propietary technology while ignoring your technically better
recommendations, the best way is to have another non technical (or not
identified primarily as) person show others how to do it.  at hacklab
barracas we try to do that, otherwise we can't have people's attention!

(it doesn't mean we're overly succesful at that :P)


ps: i agree it should be part of the default installation of a free
operating system, that's why i started this repo:
https://github.com/fauno/duraskel/tree/develop

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