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The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella

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Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella

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tptacek wrote: post #53
secfirstmd wrote: post #52

Part of the inspiration for us building Umbrella: a free, open source app with advice on how activists can deal with protests, arrests, surveillance and communication. It's available in multiple languages, including Chinese. (More information at https://www.secfirst.org ) iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

See Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter thread on Rory Byrne, who you Do Not Want To Be. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1169323269297717248

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Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella

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WilTimSon wrote: post #54
Avamander wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should seriously consider Keybase with it's non-required use of a phone number and strong encryption in every chat. I'm not in any way affiliated with them but I just don't like Telegram suggested with it's unaudited homebrewn crypto and Russian roots.

The unaudited thing is definitely raising questions but, come on, let's not act like people being from a certain country should automatically discard them. Signal is made by Americans and so is Briar, I'd hope neither are thought of as NSA stooges or something. Telegram creators got essentially run out of the country and the app itself was banned in Russia, that's a pretty good sign that there's no cooperation with t…

I thought Briar was made in the UK?
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