Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoThat is the real (overall) goal of shit like this.
Prevent people from using communication devices so that we can’t coordinate. It is a lot easier to go around busting heads if people aren’t recording you (or running over from the other street to fight back…). Same with the constant war on encryption.
And useful idiots (or incompetent plants) will love to talk about how the real problem is people are bringing those evidence collection boxes to protests and are coordinating rather than acting as a sea of individuals.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yet again I’m not saying this isn’t bad, I guess I’m just surprised people are just catching on to this shit. Look into meshnets. Get a DV handycam. Keep it secret keep it safe. Practice good op sec. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No. What you are doing is trying to act smug while spreading the exact same end goal of isolating people.
A hidden gopro does not stop cops from beating you to death and saying you had a gun. A bunch of phones that are recording “to the cloud” does that. Similarly, a hidden camera does not let you communicate with other protesters and just isolates you and weakens the movement as a whole.
Please listen to others rather than being a useful idiot for the fascists.
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
We aren’t just catching on. You’re letting your smug cloud your judgment here.
This is a new policy that codifies these practices. That is a ratcheting up of the problem.