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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 01/20/2014 02:29 PM, Kate Krauss wrote:
> Hi,
> I think the idea is that there is a subset of activists and 
> journalists who are very motivated to encrypt who can't. Glen 
> Greenwald comes to mind. I come to mind, and a bunch of my activist 
> friends from countries under pressure. I don't see much easy to use 
> instruction on how--and finding them easily is important. I do see a 
> lot of obsolete sites (and is the MIT key server broken?) that come up 
> first in searches.
> Thanks for reading and commenting,
> Katie

PGP/GPG requires you to bootstrap out-of-band, no?  If that's the case, 
then why not use Cables and gain the benefit of forward-secrecy?  
Encrypted email is going to set off alarm bells for a state-level 
attacker anyway, so why not go ahead and just encrypt everything so the 
attacker can't even tell if you're sending messages or surfing?

-Jonathan