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 can’t do it alone.
If you are a knowledge addict, data miner, proficient writer, or an otherwise gifted individual, then this may be your calling. We’re 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 you’re 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 you’re looking to organize you can follow the advice below
For those interested in building networks and organizing folks to get together that’s even better. However it carries some risk so if you’re organizing use E2E comms and if you’re 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 don’t communicate over email, even encrypted email. Email needs to be stored and archived for it to work, often in plaintext so it’s never going to be a secure way to communicate.
For a place to start looking for aid and assistance. If there’s a fridge or book or tool share that’s not there, notify them please so they can update the site.
If you’re 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 it’s an http site. Don’t sign up for anything that doesn’t pass your vibe check.
If you’d like to help undo all these info purges there’s
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Most of all, talk to loved ones, build community. We keep us safe. If you’re interested you could start a patrol and disrupt ICE stakeouts.
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/
It’s a marathon not a sprint. Sometimes it’s 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 there’s nothing we can do. Fuck that
I don’t have skin in this game but Email itself can be clear text all you want. By using pgp with email is very much secure as the text encryption is not transparent you see the encrypted message you encrypted with their public key and need their private key to decrypt the message.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/566783/i-can-get-and-crack-your-password-hashes-from-email.html
The link has nothing to do with PGP
Correct it has everything to do with emails
But not sending emails it’s about sending you emails and a token highjacking has nothing to do with the email protocol.
Agreed you’re right. However it’s still a less secure protocol than other standards of communication that are available, Matrix, Mattermost, Signal etc.
I have taken your concerns to heart and will integrate guest accommodations into the Matrix server.
Email minus pgp you are correct email with pgp I honestly think it’s more secure than all of them since you know the protocol is not going to help you and it was the end to end encryption before it was cool. It’s just a pain in the ass to use but that has nothing to do with security. I trust a pgp encrypted email over a matrix or signal where it all happens behind the scenes to the user.
My major concern is the nature of the request. “Please email me an unencrypted email so that I can send you a PGP key to sign further encrypted comms to a different email address.”
Also you’re correct PGP is difficult to handle in email as it’s bolted onto an old and plaintext protocol. I’m learning a lot about email here. Most of my PGP signed packages are done in linux repositories and I admit that I’m not as familiar with it as ECDSA and other encryption algos.
Yeah that would be bullshit he doesn’t need to send you the key via email he would just need to upload it to a public key server and be done with it.