The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.
Remember kids, look into securing your phone & only add people to your group chats that you have good reason to trust.
only add people to your group chats that you have good reason to trust
Yeah people need to really set trust hierarchies for this kinda political organizing. Sort of a “Principle of least privilege” but for people.
Only post personal or identifying information in chats where everyone already knows every other person directly. Public or effectively public(with more than like 10 people) chats should never ever have any identifying information in them.
Dont use a SIM card. Which also means dont use Signal unless you have a number than cant be linked to you.
They will absolutely plant long term rats for this shit so if you havent known someone for years, then think twice about telling them things they dont need to know.
If people are actually serious about organizing then tell them to use Briar. There is nothing else that comes close to it. You shouldnt use your primary phone for shit like this anyways so it doesnt matter if they are apple users, they should get a 100$ android just for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briar_(software)
https://briarproject.org/you don’t need to give your signal contacts your phone number, they won’t know it if you use signal usernames
But signal knows it so they will hand it over to the police if requested…
Signal apparently maintains a chat log? Sounds like a dumb idea for stuff like this. Better to erase everything once it’s been seen or after a few minutes.
where did you read that?
Maybe you’re thinking of a fork that was recently publicized for having logs in memory in plain text and being easily accessible to third parties