#Operational Security

[victusinveritas]

A soldier looking at a mirror with a sign reading "IF YOU TALK TOO MUCH, THIS MAN MAY DIE". at Camp Hood, Texas in January 1943. The sign was placed there to encourage people to not spread information that might be sensitive in the War effort during World War II.

Credit: Rishi Colors

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[sergeant-macho-nacho]

Operational Security is extremely important to protect your digital privacy

Encryption, passwords, multiple burner devices, a VPN that make tracking your IP address more difficult, for example

I don't think Luigi Mangione shot anyone, but because he used social media like Good reads, Facebook, Reddit, untrustworthy Internet service providers, etc those social media websites either handed over his information freely or he was finked on by people who knew his online identity

Obviously I'm not advocating for terrorism, anarchy, sabatuers, or wha eva. I just don't want my tax dollars to be wasted because you got yourself locked up doing something stupid

This should seem obvious, but don't trust no body police have gone undercover in order to trick protesters into breaking the law

I bet you've never even heard about Ruby Ridge

[elumish]

I am once again asking people to spend at least five minutes googling classified information and how it works in the United States before writing the most nonsensical things about it into their stories.

[the-daughter-of-lilith]

Things to consider in regards to your privacy, remaining connected, and informed:

- Invest in a burner and Faraday bag if possible

- Use a separate identity on platforms (fakepersongenerator.com)

- Utilize throw away emails for sign ups (FastMail)

- Consider reformatting your device for a privacy focused OS like Graphene

- Utilize privacy focused apps like Signal and ProtonMail

- Keep up to date with news through sites like SoylentNews or GroundNews

- Use Brave or Firefox w/ privacy extensions

- Review privacy settings and permissions (Apply the Zero-Trust principal)

- Use a VPN that's not US based (ProtonVPN, Mullvad, etc.)

- Remove location metadata from your photo settings

- Consider all images can be geolocated

- Use a Virtual Credit Card (VCC) for purchases

- Use personal data removal services like Spokeo or Intelius

- Do not enable biometrics

- Airplane mode is your friend

- Join privacy based communities like r/privacy

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[victusinveritas]

[isaacsapphire]

You really can’t underestimate the number of people online who absolutely do reject the existence of the American military and intelligence apparatus as a concept, and allegedly the concepts of America, militaries, governments, civilization, and the human species.

OP is on the ball about how this leak probably wouldn’t have been made public under a Democratic administration, which would have observed more decorum while discussing “striking one of the poorest countries in the world” because of course using the right words to talk about it is more important than whether poor brown people are blown up. Overall it appears that striking the Houthis benefits Europe more than the US, so it would probably be seen as a positive action if a Dem did it.

But yeah, regardless of a person’s opinion on blowing up Houthis, or any war or attack, the people in charge being so sloppy with war plans as to leak them to randos is Seriously Bad and that’s something pretty much everyone can agree on.

Everybody is shocked that US journalist was invited to a top secret chat discussing military strikes and then just left (honestly that's the funniest thing) while refusing to reveal sensitive information but that's about what I expected. You can read on his article, he doesn't care about the fact that the US military is striking one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact, he probably even supports it.

What he is outraged about is how dare Trump be so incompetent, how dare him compromise the effectiveness of the US military, which is doing its job to 'protect this country'. You will see this in media from other countries, there's little to no mention about WHERE the airstrikes were directed to, WHY and WHO they killed. It's all "oh Trump let a random journalist on his chat, how embarrassing!" If it had been Obama or Biden or whoever, the journalist probably wouldn't even had published anything, because after all I imagine (ha!) that they talk about bombing third world countries with propriety and decorum, not unlike these guys who are so, so cringe.

this is why I tell you that the US has a level of military worship seldom seen and completely naturalized

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

Theres two types of people in this world

Those who didnt see shit and

Those who shared the shooters portrait so he could be identified

[nanotomik]

insert just got married sign here

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

Sorry for being absent on International Working Women's Day, I was busy pleasing a working woman.

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[moonshotpress]

Mine is "Florida man gives bad actors a way to guess private info for imaginary online popularity points"

Mine is "Florida Man Impersonates Security to Get Into Taylor Swift Concert."

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Shuham at HuffPost:

EL PASO, Texas — The armored military vehicles President Donald Trump has sent to the U.S.-Mexico border weigh 50,000 pounds apiece and have thermal and infrared cameras said to be able to spot “a little mouse up to a mile out.” That feature might appeal to Trump, who has referred to people who cross the border without authorization as “rats” who “infest” the nation.

Last week, when a soldier emerged from one of the hulking eight-wheelers, armed with a pair of binoculars and a grimace, he briefly turned his attention away from the U.S.-Mexico border. He turned over his left shoulder, looking inward at the United States — and at me. He was one of the approximately 10,000 members of the U.S. military who are now stationed at the border, many of whom now patrol areas where, according to the president, they have the authority to detain civilians. Over the last few weeks, Trump has directed the military to take control of thousands of acres of land along the border in Texas and New Mexico, treating nearly 250 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border as de facto military installations known as “National Defense Areas.” As a result, people who cross the border in these areas are now not only susceptible to charges of illegal entry but also of trespassing on a military installation. This escalation also purportedly gives soldiers the legal authority to detain civilians for trespassing. In short: Trump has issued a hugely significant order for troops to detain people for civilian criminal violations on American soil. At the U.S.-Mexico border last week, I saw what a national military police force might look like.

Arriving At The Border

On top of increased air surveillance and logistical support, there are now at least three massive, armored Stryker vehicles each in Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The Strykers themselves aren’t armed, but the soldiers within them carry rifles, as do others along the border. (About 50 such vehicles arrived at the border in April; it’s unclear how many are in use.)

Four other journalists and I participated in a U.S. Army tour last week, being shepherded around the borderlands in a sprinter van. Beginning at Fort Bliss, we first drove through downtown El Paso, Texas, to the bollard fence that marks many urban borders with Mexico. We passed through the gate, going south, and our van lurched between sandy potholes until we stopped underneath the Bridge of the Americas. For the first time in American history, soldiers have purportedly been given the authority to detain people in the New Mexico and west Texas borderlands on the grounds that they are trespassing on a military base. Though the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act restricts the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, a loophole known as the military purpose doctrine allows exceptions where soldiers are working to further a primarily military function, like guarding a military base. Trump’s recent orders take advantage of this loophole. You might be able to spot the circular logic. The hundreds of miles of new “military installations” along the border have provided the grounds for hundreds of trespassing charges, and potentially thousands more in the future. The purpose of those charges is to protect the military bases. Those bases, according to the military, are part of an overall effort to “seal the southern border and repel illegal activity,” as well as “denying illegal activity along the southern border.” But the trespassing charges now central to that effort would not be legal if the bases didn’t exist. According to the military, these new National Defense Areas range from 60 feet to over 3 miles deep, though the Army has not released maps to make their exact dimensions clear. Analyzing land transfer data earlier this month, a spokesperson for Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told SourceNM the border militarization scheme has serious implications for anyone driving along New Mexico State Road 9 “who might pull over to stretch their legs and unwittingly trespass on a military base.” [...]

At least so far, the arrests have been carried out by Border Patrol agents, not soldiers. But that could change, especially if the number of unauthorized border crossings ticks up as temperatures cool in the fall. Also, so far, it appears no U.S. citizens have been charged with trespassing on the border installations — but there’s nothing in the legal authorities cited by the Trump administration that would preclude that. These developments are just the latest in decades of border militarization. The United States, under presidents of both parties, has built hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent decades. The Border Patrol recently celebrated its 100th birthday, and especially since Sept. 11, 2001, border enforcement has grown more and more aggressive, featuring high-tech surveillance equipment and thousands of armed agents, the presence of whom — especially as recent presidents have attacked asylum rights along the border — tends to push people into isolated, barren parts of the desert. In recent years, members of the military have served in a support capacity along the border, helping with logistical tasks and surveillance. Still, Trump has accelerated this trend in his second term. Now, there are 10,000 soldiers along the border as part of the federal mission, up from 2,500 in January. And the threat of trespassing charges is palpable. Veteran border journalist Todd Miller wrote this month that on a recent trip to attempt to take photos of the new Defense Department signage, he noticed a camera system on an unmarked truck that appeared to be tracking his movements. [...] Similar boasts about the military’s ability to one-up Border Patrol officers are common in Operation Lone Star, the governor of Texas’ parallel (but unrelated) mission to militarize that state’s border using Texas National Guard soldiers, state troopers and state trespassing charges. That mission has also been marred by alleged human rights abuses and gratuitous political theater. Still, even before the declaration of National Defense Areas, crossings were already at historic lows, as they began dropping during the Biden administration due to much larger forces. Mexico, under pressure from the U.S., has for years moved aggressively to use its military and law enforcement to keep migrants away from the U.S. border. And both Trump and former President Joe Biden dramatically cracked down on asylum rights on the border, in Biden’s case with a numerical cap, and in Trump’s by simply declaring border crossings to be an emergency, and eliminating asylum rights almost altogether. As of last Thursday, the Army claimed it had made 190 “detections” since the New Mexico National Defense Area was first established in April — a minuscule number compared with Border Patrol’s day-to-day work.

HuffPost’s Matt Shuham went on tour to the US/Mexico Border to preview what a potential national military police force would look like under the Trump Regime.

Read the full story at HuffPost.