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SMH @ activists using techno-fascist platforms for communications during an operation subject to state-actor level interference. I thought we recognised and acknowledged this problem 15-20 years ago already.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706
Amazing that they weren't using Signal for comms outside their group, but for internal comms it's even more amazing they weren't using something like Meshtastic.
Can only say a person who has never used meshtastic.
Source: The struggle.
Thank you for telling me about meshtastic!
For anyone like me who never heard of it before:
At least they werent organising on discord, maybe its intentional to send a message to people about meta
Meta is complicit in the genocide
relying on whatsapp for dissenting
more leftists could really use understanding computers. how the fuck can you go in such a mission full of the empire's tracking devices. using whatsapp shows there wasn't even thought put into it.
Maybe the aim of the flotilla was to just make people aware that there are activists who are worried about gaza. Just to create media buzz.
yes, but i don't think handing all their communications (and possibly much more) to the entity they want to pressure is helping though.
All the more reason to use Signal.
So the Trump ass-kissers have given the King of Fools another gift for his pleasure. The cost to freedom is immense
Maybe consider Signal instead?
or like any opsec at all.
another reason why not to use whatsapp? for all that is good, don't use meta or any corporate technofascist company. there are better options.
Damn, didn’t know Nitter still existed.
It was resurrected in February.
WhatsApp Supports starving children to death
I use WhatsApp cautiously with friends who still refuse to jump over to Signal (let alone Matrix or Session). But it's def mind blowing to read an activist group was relying on it for organizing. Reminds me of FB being used for organizing G20 and BLM demos -_-
Considering their entire marketing campaign is "nobody, not even WhatsApp can see your messages," I can see how folks would fall for that.
But they can see the metadata!
I think a lot of non-techie people only know signal from the Trump admin using it illegally earlier in the year. In a lot of people's minds because of that they think Signal = insecure because they don't get the nuances of why using it in that specific context -- on personal phones, using a third party app, with a random journalist in the mix -- was bad, but that for most people it's still one of the best options. WhatsApp on the other hand has a lot of marketing around it and if you didn't know that Meta is Facebook I think some people wouldn't even realise who the owners are.
I had a friend who heard signal was backdoored and that a regular old cell call was more secure. Had to correct that
wasn't it telegram that got hacked?
also i vaguely remember the signal ceo getting sued or something because they couldn't/wouldn't let some government body read someone's messages, because it's encrypted
A sad reality of political activism is the inability of many groups to follow proper opsec.
I mean, based on the source, they're still even on Twitter which is a lot more overtly fascist than WhatsApp. So…yeah…
There are some unofficial pages on the fediverse: https://mastodon.bida.im/@globalsumudflotilla
But yeah no links or mentions to mastodon and federated platforms on their website
This is why you don't use whatsapp
This is yet another reason why you don't use whatsapp
ftfy
The number of people who are like "are you on Whatsapp? " fir secure conversations....
Yeah, that's curious. I'd think they'd be prepared with Signal at the very least and some backup self-hosted channel, as well as cameras and backup cell hotspots.
they were prepared for the drone hit the other day; so hopefully for this as well.
I'd imagine they could have a few spread out boats further and further behind, each with its own cell hotspot, beaming WiFi all around, so that they have to be jammed simultaneously to stop the livestreams from capturing the attacks.
it sounds like it would be easier to pick them off one-by-one if they were far apart.
What difference would that make? If someone who does have big guns wants to take them out, they're going to end up at the bottom of the sea regardless of how clustered the boats are.
Or fiber optic cable.
So happy not to be using Whatsapp...
Did they select Whatsapp as a main communication channel and direct their supporters to it?
Or did they just start a group chat to reach out to supporters who were already on the app?
100% CIA and mossad were watching those channels realtime.
I am pretty sure those groups were public
Very odd from Whatsapp.
Totally consistent Meta is joined at the hip with US government and therefore more or less in league with Zionists, neocons and Israel just like every american big tech, bank and media company.
Was this their main channel of communication or just a group they had for supporters?
Doesn't really matter, it's the metadata that reveals your connections and locations. Surprisingly big amount of useful (but not necessarily correct or verifiable) intel can be gathered without eavesdropping into the actual conversations. People have been - on other occasions - targeted because they were connected to a person, who's connections may have been suspicious to some state actors.
Huh? I was just curious, because it's quite different if they used this as their main-channel. Using WhatsApp for that would be crazy.
Sounds like this group is more of a social media vibe group, rather then a group interested in real undermining of Zionism. Maybe stop being pawns for slacktivists with rich parents and try joining the PLO instead?