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This is a global fight. The perpetrators and the victims are everywhere.
If the organizers really want to make a difference, the site should replace the words "call and email" with "buy and pay".
I also think framing it as a one day campaign where the “fighting” involves passive action at the individual level is not a game winning strategy. It is still a great rallying signal though, and its effects have already gone beyond the single day, and for every person too lazy to change their avatar back, they will carry on for a good while longer in some way.
However, the motivation for the average person to even think about engaging such an overwhelming and invisible force as mass surveillance is very close to zero. For those who are willing, involvement seems to be passive (donating to a more capable organization, hitting a like button, resharing links), bursty (waiting for organized events to rally around), or demoralizing (low visibility of opponent, lack of support from uninterested peers or locals, extremely slow and indirect feedback loop for any action).
For these reasons, I hope that a campaign modeled as a constantly running open source game engine emerges, because that is actually just the bare minimum required for victory - to at least continue playing the game as long as your opponent is playing, no matter whether you are winning or losing at the moment.
A game model will at least make undeniably clear that there exists a thing worth playing for (your personal information perhaps), that there are actual opponents who can and will take this thing from you, and the visibility and mechanics needed for you to take action to protect that thing.
My little fight back are some instructions on how to provide your own internet services, including encryption. http://freedombone.uk.to/ It's not ideal, of course, but in the short term since there seems to be no political appetite for relinquishment or meaningful reform then technical mitigation strategies - if they can be sufficiently popularised - may help to reduce the harm resulting from mass surveillance. Ultim…
That's a good little installation document. I'm going to give that a go with a raspberry pi when I get home. How up to date are the instructions?
Surely this site has been set up by the NSA to harvest the details of everyone who opposes them...?
As far as I am concerned, fighting back for a day is useless. The NSA is probably going to find they have already lost this battle because we now trust their co-conspirators a lot less. It's the slow, relatively minor pressure over time by billions of people that will change things. But the real danger is with the next battle. I think we are going to see a major showdown over legality of encryption generally within t…
History, people. History. This showdown already happened and the intelligence services lost.
My little fight back are some instructions on how to provide your own internet services, including encryption. http://freedombone.uk.to/ It's not ideal, of course, but in the short term since there seems to be no political appetite for relinquishment or meaningful reform then technical mitigation strategies - if they can be sufficiently popularised - may help to reduce the harm resulting from mass surveillance. Ultim…
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That's a good little installation document. I'm going to give that a go with a raspberry pi when I get home. How up to date are the instructions?
It's not little - it's quite comprehensive. Excellent job done. It's explained quite well in a very enjoyable writing style. I think anyone who knows enough to add a banner to a webpage can work their way through the document. It's a good idea to promote it as an alternative because from the outside at least, it seems freedombox has lost momentum since the privoxy release, even though the idea is sound.
Until such time as FreedomBox or maybe ArkOS are in a more developed condition this is about the best I can manage.