In Person Activism

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"Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." -Tim Snyder

A community for sharing information about ways to get involved with real world activism to make the world a better place.

Spend less time arguing about politics on the internet. The world is in trouble. Get out there and try to help.

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Do not underestimate the effectiveness of flyers. (slrpnk.net)

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A well-placed flyer can reach the eyes of thousands of people per day, regardless of which social media platform they use, if any.

If you make a flyer for an event, share the file online and encourage others to print them out too.

Before sharing, remove the metadata with Scrambled Exif on Android or Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit on Linux. Sending a copy to a friend? Send it over Signal.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

The EFF has stated that basically every color printer does this now, so much so that they stopped updating the list of the ones that do. You need to be aware of it.

The EFF stated in 2015 that the documents that they previously received through a Freedom of Information Act request[7] suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable.

Every printer is capable of this stenography, and every printer does so at the behest of the US and other governments. This has been happening since at LEAST 2004.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Again, not all printers print in color.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Black and white printers employ stenography too.

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=F-IFNTqwEv

Stop being so confidently incorrect for fucks sake.

Black and white printers employ stenography via dithering the image.

So unless you're using some ancient dot matrix printer via an old LPT port, chances are anything you print can be traced back to you.

I'm saying this for your SAFETY you luddite. I have a past in the security industry and you wouldn't believe the things that they can use to identify you.

I get it, ignorance is bliss and all, but I'm trying to educate you. Activism is going to be a little uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Crazy and concerning. Thanks for sharing.

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