Trying to explain compartmentalization to activists, but the biggest stumbling block is that most people become activists by accident, so their activism is deeply enmeshed with all of their existing accounts, platforms, and devices.
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Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
WIRED
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and ...
Every once in a while, someone gets the genius idea of impersonating me online and I spend an afternoon looking for the most chaotic way to make them regret that choice.
Sometimes I get a really good quote in.
“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”
ICE Is Using AI to Find Targets. Do They Care If It Makes Mistakes?
Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.
Notepad++ publishes a blog post saying they caught a probably-Chinese state actor hijacking their product in an attack against highly-selective targets that began last June:
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++
Why do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stopice-hacked-names-locations-over-100k-users-were-sent-fbi-ice-hsi-1775307
Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: 
WIRED
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE an...
How many people here would be interested if I did a digital security/privacy advice blog somewhere?
This is your regular reminder that I do not owe you an argument defending a position that you have decided that I hold. Indeed, I do not owe you an argument about anything.
EFF will be closed Friday, Jan. 30 as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE and CBP and the brutality and terror they and other federal agencies continue to inflict on immigrant communities and any who stand with them.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
On January 30, EFF will be closed as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE, CBP, and the brutality and terror they and other federal a...