It’s a weird new world for sure out there and honestly everyone is going through this.

Even the CIA had to stand up a whole new department years ago when the realised they even with all of their tradecraft and gadgets they couldn’t even move around London without the Brits knowing about it and had to totally change how they did business as a result. It’s not just an average protestor on the street problem at all.

I think a big part of the problem comes from this idea that you’re trying to be invisible and you keep running into all these new layers of problems all the damned time.

Maybe I’m using E2EE apps but the people I’m talking with take screenshots and run them through co-pilot or put them into their iCloud backups or a million other scenarios. It just feels like such an unwinnable game sometimes that you can very easily and convincingly get yourself to a place where you feel overwhelmed and you just freeze which is such a trap in and of itself.

I’d recommend keeping the illegal activity side of things extremely fucking low to non-existent personally and everything else will become much simpler as a result. It’s much easier to just not have evidence than trying to hide it. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do things with a sense of purpose though. There are many ways to frustrate the opposition, to tie up their resources, to send them on wild goose chases, to wear down their morale that are all firmly in the legal category.

Very good advice. I make a big effort to stay on the good side of the law as like you I have a healthy respect for their abilities. I’m also interested in your last couple sentences there about sending them on wild goose chases. It reminds me of a YouTube video I watched recently about a way to send AI data scrapers into an infinite hall of mirrors filled with randomly generated text. Not something I have the time to cook up at the moment but I found it amusing. At the same time it’s not hard for me to imagine how easy it would be to pass laws that make such efforts to poison AI a felony.