She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
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She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
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Re: She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
#2And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
Re: She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
#3If you're going to whistleblow on your local government online (be that a legitimate government, or a violent drug cartel), the only reasonably safe way to do it is from outside the country AND using Tor. It amazes me that people don't take these basic precautions.
Mexican cartels are known to have infiltrated ISPs, where they were able to tie IP addresses to identities. Using encryption is the only way.
EDIT: may I ask why the downvotes? Did I say something offensive or break the HN rules?
Re: She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
#4And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
And what about all the customers of this cartel who give them the money to pay people enough to do things like this?
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#5If you're going to whistleblow on your local government online (be that a legitimate government, or a violent drug cartel), the only reasonably safe way to do it is from outside the country AND using Tor. It amazes me that people don't take these basic precautions. Mexican cartels are known to have infiltrated ISPs, where they were able to tie IP addresses to identities. Using encryption is the only way. EDIT: may I…
I'm not sure how you're going to get out real journalism about the events going on within your city from another country... Did you read the article?
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#7And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
At this point, the cartels have diversified far beyond drug trafficking.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023032777045793...
Re: She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
#8If you're going to whistleblow on your local government online (be that a legitimate government, or a violent drug cartel), the only reasonably safe way to do it is from outside the country AND using Tor. It amazes me that people don't take these basic precautions. Mexican cartels are known to have infiltrated ISPs, where they were able to tie IP addresses to identities. Using encryption is the only way. EDIT: may I…
I'm not sure how you're going to get out real journalism about the events going on within your city from another country... Did you read the article?
I wonder if the safest way to do this is to have a friend outside of the country help run the social media and you, as the insider, provide the information and direct the friend from within the country/city instead.
Re: She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
#9If you're going to whistleblow on your local government online (be that a legitimate government, or a violent drug cartel), the only reasonably safe way to do it is from outside the country AND using Tor. It amazes me that people don't take these basic precautions. Mexican cartels are known to have infiltrated ISPs, where they were able to tie IP addresses to identities. Using encryption is the only way. EDIT: may I…
I'm not sure how you're going to get out real journalism about the events going on within your city from another country... Did you read the article?
I did, and it clearly says that other citizens were sending her information to post online. I don't know much about her situation, but presumably that wouldn't require her to be in the country.
And even if that's not the case, using Tor and not linking your online vigilante identity to your real identity (e.g. by having your whistleblower twitter account linked to your personal phone) is a very basic precaution.
I REALLY don't want to sound insensitive, but if people are going to use technology to fight people who wield the power of physical violence, they DO need to learn how to apply it properly.
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#10And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
And what about all the customers of this cartel who give them the money to pay people enough to do things like this?
All the more reason to encourage domestic production of drugs in regulated (ie, legal and not cartel-run) markets.
Blaming the customers is ineffective, because there's no way to end the demand for drugs entirely - we have decades of prohibitions that prove that[0]. Whether or not you or I would like them to boycott these products on principle en masse is a moot point, because it's just not feasible.
[0] If we can't even keep federal prisons drug-free, how could we keep the rest of the country drug-free?