It has emerged that authorities are using executive powers to seize and search the smartphones and laptop computers of protesters for evidence of "crimes" and to harvest personal data such as emails, browser history and social media connections. Here is a guide to safe networking if you're attending any of the hundreds of protests currently taking place around the world: ANONYMOUS ALWAYS ENCRYPT! ASSUME LIKE NEVER BEFORE! ANONYMOUS! remain hidden and don't use browsers with "History" functions switched on. ALWAYS! have your machines on a password protected "sleep"mode (i.e. PASSWORD PROTECTED SCREEN SAVER) ENCRYPT! anything sensitive within folders before taking it along to a protest. ASSUME! your laptop/smartphone will be searched by police experts LIKE! this post and please forward it through all channels. NEVER! use "autocomplete" or store passwords and usernames in plain text. BEFORE! attending any OCCUPY event backup/remove anything that could be seen as incriminating personal data. This has been a public service announcement from Anonymous. Thank-you for your attention. Keep calm and carry on.
No, but if you think it's really important that people look into this then you might consider quoting from the links in your posts.
It's really important to get the message out there NOW!, on the basis that people who haven't looked into this will surely now do so, and those aware of the problem have taken what are obvious precautions already. This movement is rapidly encompassing people who are not as web aware as Anonymous Anonymous might consider the urgency of the message outweighing the need to publish a thesis, perhaps?
Thank-you for helping disseminate this message. It is vital that protesters keep their Anonymity in the face of corporate owned authority.
