[Politics] Surveillance self defense
Hello, Internet! Several of my friends have installed Signal (hi!) and thanked me for the recommendation. I thought I'd link again. Also, those of you tending to your digital footprints may appreciate the EFF's Surveillance Self Defense project. They have tutorials customized to LGBTQ youths, Mac users, activists and protesters, journalism students/new journalists, professional journalists, and plenty more. Also consider their Privacy Badger browser extension. They also have rainbow unicorns. [grin] Go forth and encrypt!
For developers: you can make everyone's lives better by improving user privacy and transparency in the code you write. It matters! Thanks -- we appreciate your efforts.
For sysadmins: don't build systems that are used to do creepy things. I have for the length of my career refused jobs on ethical grounds and it's not as terrifying of a conversation with your management as you'd think. It's easier for some folks than others, I'm not going to starve because I fired a potential client or anything, and I've been fortunate to have management that respects my "oh HELL no". Just putting it out there that sometimes it is possible to nope on out of contributing to the problem.
I am totally considering buying a bunch of copies of Little Brother and donating them to school libraries, or starting a book group somewhere for people who wouldn't normally know that book exists. Cory lets you download and read it for free, which is great, and I want to give him money for his work because that book is great and I would have loved it as a kid. (Tl;dr, if you want your kid to turn out like me, give them that book, heh. Since it wasn't written when I was a kid, I had to settle for being given Animal Farm at an impressionable young age because "it's about animals!". Ahahaha.)
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For developers: you can make everyone's lives better by improving user privacy and transparency in the code you write. It matters! Thanks -- we appreciate your efforts.
For sysadmins: don't build systems that are used to do creepy things. I have for the length of my career refused jobs on ethical grounds and it's not as terrifying of a conversation with your management as you'd think. It's easier for some folks than others, I'm not going to starve because I fired a potential client or anything, and I've been fortunate to have management that respects my "oh HELL no". Just putting it out there that sometimes it is possible to nope on out of contributing to the problem.
I am totally considering buying a bunch of copies of Little Brother and donating them to school libraries, or starting a book group somewhere for people who wouldn't normally know that book exists. Cory lets you download and read it for free, which is great, and I want to give him money for his work because that book is great and I would have loved it as a kid. (Tl;dr, if you want your kid to turn out like me, give them that book, heh. Since it wasn't written when I was a kid, I had to settle for being given Animal Farm at an impressionable young age because "it's about animals!". Ahahaha.)
[deliberately public for linkability if you know other people that would find this helpful]
This entry was originally posted at http://ivy.dreamwidth.org/573422.html and has
comments there. Please feel free to comment on either site; comments rock.