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How do you build a movement without exposing everyone in it? Wired has some answers.

  • Writer: Patrick Keane
    Patrick Keane
  • 1 day ago
  • 1 min read


This is the question Wired's Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman put to technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts. Grassroots organizing is surging, but so is the surveillance apparatus watching it, backed by federal agencies with vast monitoring powers and deep cooperation from the Silicon Valley companies that hold Americans' data.


The piece covers threat modeling, encrypted tools, and the tradeoffs between keeping things secret versus keeping them accessible to people of all technical backgrounds.


No simple checklist, but a lot of practical thinking.


"Look at the risk in context, make informed choices, try to be as safe as possible. But, my God, go out there and help people. Because we need it." -- Taylor Fairbank, Distribute Aid, via Wired


 
 
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