cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25408170
from @MidnightMan
If you have been wondering what you can do make a meaningful difference, then I may have an answer for you. Urgent action is required to prepare the people of the United States for a fascist government to come into power, and by extension the increasingly likely prospect of a genocide, but I canāt do it alone.
If you are a knowledge addict, data miner, proficient writer, or an otherwise gifted individual, then this may be your calling. Weāre going to be doing and learning a lot of cool stuff, but the work is tedious, and it will aid you immensely to be driven either out of passion for learning and personal growth, love of labor, or sheer love for your fellow compatriots. Several self-maintained application servers are being run to assist with operations and collaboration.
If youāre curious or want to learn more, you can contact me at midnightman1234@yahoo.com with a new email for increased compartmentaliation, after which you will receive a reply from my primary email. Our activities are strictly legal, but anonymity on your part is strongly encouraged as a precaution to retaliatory action. Interested parties should not respond to this message over Lemmy.
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The above message is likely an attempt to collect email addresses of people who might be well meaning. I would strongly advise against communicating with this person for the below reasons.
You cannot encrypt email End to End. It has to be stored in plaintext somewhere.
Yahoo does not offer encrypted email.
You have no idea of who will be emailing you back so there will be no way in which to validate your comms.
If youāre looking to organize you can follow the advice below
For those interested in building networks and organizing folks to get together thatās even better. However it carries some risk so if youāre organizing use E2E comms and if youāre researching use Tor Browser. Better yet use a Tails USB on a coffee shop wifi.
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-signal
https://www.torproject.org/download/
https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/index.en.html
And donāt communicate over email, even encrypted email. Email needs to be stored and archived for it to work, often in plaintext so itās never going to be a secure way to communicate.
For a place to start looking for aid and assistance. If thereās a fridge or book or tool share thatās not there, notify them please so they can update the site.
If youāre looking for a place to help, look up Food Not Bombs plus whatever city is closest to you.
http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/volunteer.php
I understand itās an http site. Donāt sign up for anything that doesnāt pass your vibe check.
If youād like to help undo all these info purges thereās
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Most of all, talk to loved ones, build community. We keep us safe. If youāre interested you could start a patrol and disrupt ICE stakeouts.
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/
Itās a marathon not a sprint. Sometimes itās as easy as doing the dishes. Mutual aid helps your neighbors and helps you.
https://afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network
Self care and avoiding burnout is most important. They want us harried and worried and feeling like thereās nothing we can do. Fuck that
Where is this from, a post or a DM? I mean itās usually a good idea not to trust someone just because theyāre pushing your buttons in the right way and offer you exactly what you want. Especially not if itās a fresh account with almost no history.
But I donāt think you can say itās fraudulent. May be a genuine attempt. Or something fishy, idk.
Iād advise to be a bit more open and transparent anyways. Iām not sure whether we need a secret underground society organizing the resistance at this point. And youāre excluding people if you make it super secretive, invite only, everyone needs to jump through hoops and do some initiation ritualā¦ Why not anonymously discuss our options in the open? So everyone can participate? Iād say this definitely feels a bit like someone is luring me into an unmarked van. And yeah, itās a bit questionable whether they have ice cream in thereā¦
Agreed. Itās a DM heās spammed out. Heās a 22 hour old account and already has two banned comments the other comment is referencing how to bypass securityā¦ Smells like a right wing script kiddy looking for targets. Iām not a mod on You Should Know but before he knew about it, my post had 7 upvotes, now itās sitting at -5 over there.
Either way, Email is plain text so any cryptographic elements shared there are already compromised. I have to go do other things. Just wanted to make sure the community here was aware.
Email this or that, it doesnāt really matter. Telling people to switch platforms to be āa bit more privateā is exactly how grooming works, online fraud worksā¦ I think that should trigger the alarm bells, not the way email works.
Iām not judging the intentions of MidnightMan. But i think he should do it here, where we can all watch and take care of each other. That is if itās honest.
Youāre absolutely correct. Also Iām not saying that MidnightMan is trying to do anything nefarious, only that theyāre going about it in a strange and concerning way.
Itās only gotten worse. Who knows how much of that is concerted vs standard dogpiling. Suspicious as all fuck. Thank you for the heads up.
I think I was wrong about PGP signed emails and the Internet did what the Internet does lol
However no one should be contacting you out of the blue and asking for an initial point of contact to be in an unencrypted means.