#(and far fewer know to disable the buried setting that forces mobile users to the new locks-you-out layout)

[hauntoblogical]

You sent an anon ask, but unless you sent it logged out and through an anonymizing tool, someone knows the originating IP address. If you sent it logged in, you may as well bookmark the post because you have already "contacted a security activist" in a way that can be subpoenaed [...]

It's worse than that: tumblr no longer allows truly-anonymous asks at all. If you aren't logged in, you can't send asks period. Hope this anon created and only accesses their account via Tor!

This is a fairly recent change, within the last year or two iirc. I can understand why they did it for more effective moderation, but it should really be a setting you can opt in to. Tumblr may not care about how much my non-tumblr friends can interact with me here, but they still offer custom domains and hosting as a monetization strategy — you'd think they would care more about organizations that want a public-facing blog.

Reading your post about safe anonymous leaking and nodding along and then going "well fuck I hope I can remember this later because if I ever consider it this is a bit incriminating to save in any way, huh"

The more people who use Tor, the less incriminating it is to use Tor.

The more you use things like Tor, the less weird it is for you to use signal and encrypted email services.

The more you use things like Tor and signal and encrypted email, the less weird it is for you to turn off the location on your devices and leave your phone at home when you go out.

It's suspicious as hell if you make a signal account the week before documents get leaked from your workplace. But it's not suspicious to have a signal account.

It's suspicious if you try to delete your google maps history the week after a protest. It's not suspicious if you don't have a google maps history because you don't use google maps.

All of which is to say: I don't think it's incriminating to check in on that post or bookmark it or start doing the things that it recommends because people should be doing the things on that post anyway. We should be using Tor casually. You should have a half dozen or so proton accounts just for convenience's sake. You should have signal, you should have your location turned off on your devices. You should be doing those things because they are good things to do, but doing those things also sets up an environment in which certain behaviors are less likely to be incriminating, or are less likely to be effective correlative evidence.

But also it has probably been a while since we talked about security nihilism around here; the deal is we live in a surviellance state and all of us are burned in some way. You sent an anon ask, but unless you sent it logged out and through an anonymizing tool, someone knows the originating IP address. If you sent it logged in, you may as well bookmark the post because you have already "contacted a security activist" in a way that can be subpoenaed (anon is only anon to the recipient! it is not anonymous to tumblr and courts can demand their records! that is why I said in the post that nobody who wanted to do any kind of leaking should say anything to me off or on anon!)

But also, consider your source: I have a bookmarks folder called "anarchist resources" that I had to remove from the toolbar because clients kept commenting on it during work calls. There is no way I'm beating the allegations.

But! Nihilism! If they want to charge you bad enough they won't need evidence to make it stick! So you might as well bookmark the post and install signal anyway. At least you can see if you can reduce your chances of getting caught!