57 months ago A primer from activist collective Extinction Rebellion on smartphone security for people participating in activist organizing and protests. A how-to guide, as well as some philosophy and guidelines for developing a good security culture to support activism and disruptive public actions.
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Olle Johansson, PhD discusses the evidence of adverse health effects from electromagnetic radiation, including wifi and cell phones.
He explains how there are over 25,000 studies about the health effects of radiation, and there have never been that many studies which are all wrong at the same time.
There is also a very telling trend of insurance companies and manufacturing companies having explicit legal clauses explaining that they are not responsible for any health effects of radiation from the use of their products. For instance, cell phones warn that they should not be within an inch of your body, which means you have given up any rights to sue the companies for eventual adverse health effects as soon as you touch your phone.
With the rise of government monitoring programs, qTox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in.
While other big-name services require you to pay for features, qTox is totally free, and comes without advertising.
Nowadays, every government seems to be interested in what we're saying online. qTox is built on a "privacy goes first" agenda, and we make no compromises. Your safety is our top priority, and there isn't anything in the world that will change that.
qTox is a client made to work with a decentralized protocol called Matrix. To learn more about that: https://matrix.org/
He describes how difficult it is to tell whether a phone is spying on you. He says the only way to be sure a phone is off is if you can take out the battery, although you can also monitor it with a meter that detects radio waves. He also mentions that he uses faraday cages for his own devices, to physically prevent signals from coming and going.
He goes on to discuss the larger issues of mass surveillance; how "terms of agreement" have been used disingenuously to force us into this situation; how certain legal precedence has disingenuously forced us into this situation by grossly extrapolating certain exceptional legal cases to apply to everyone at all times; and how big data has become such big business that there is a lot of power and influence in motion to try and maintain this era of surveillance.
He has also mentions his recently released book called "Permanent Record" all about how this surveillance stuff all works, and the implications.
He also plugs an article that he wrote with Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang called "Introspection engine" that goes into a lot of detail about one way to mediate these intrusions by using an always-on meter to detect whether radio radiation is going in or out of a phone. Ideally, the meter could be built into the cover on your phone. That article can be found here: https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/introspection-engine/ - but it looks like that's just a proposal, taken from the full 16 page booklet that goes more in depth about making it work here: https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringLawfulAbusesofDigitalSurveillance.pdf
69 months ago In this #video💬, #Anonymous💬 provides an excellent introduction to securing your internet traffic with encrypted software and anonymizing your internet connection for using the internet without being tracked.