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You may have heard recently of phone surveillance tech being used against protestors (and anyone who happens to be ANYWHERE NEAR what the Feds *declare* to be a protest.)

This thread's material comes from some Signals Intelligence experts, & these're their thoughts, not mine.
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You maybe saw Sam Harris's July 31st article in WaPo about communications tracking. A FOIA request about it to NSA came back denied on the basis of classification.

**this implies that DHS/FBI gave the info they took from our phones to the NSA, who said "don't say nothing."
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I waded through a lotta technical jargon to tell you this, but the gist is that DHS/FBI is cloning our cell phones when we're in the streets at or around protests and stealing texts and calls.

Why clone our phones instead of cell towers, which would reap more readily?
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Cloning phones is a well-worn scanner tactic. You get texts, you might get Signal (end-to-end encrypted app) keys.

Savvy folks use encrypted apps for resistance communication, but they may have keys to those apps in clonable spots in their phones.

The Feds are after those.
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SMS/MMS texts aren't even REMOTELY secure, and if you've been NEAR a protest in Portland since the Feds got here, they have yours, either through Stingray (celltower spoof) or the surveillance planes that have been trackably circling above portland for the last 75 days or so.
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With the Signal app, if your phone has been cloned, you will see "your security number has changed" in the app if they've been snooping.

But they may have your texts & anything else they could have moved during the hours you were in their sights. The only limit is bandwidth.
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Fortunately, there's no need to panic about your Signal communications, –I'm pretty sure. Their end-to-end encryption remains strong, and you can add an extra layer of protection with its PIN number feature.

It is not likely that they've seen your Signal messages, but. . .
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IMPORTANT: Enabling PIN and Registration Lock are different Signal app features. ENABLE BOTH.

Signal appears to be safely encrypted, but your phone isn't.

If you've been *near* a PDX protest, consider your texts/calls, and other unencrypted info already stolen by Feds.
This is the hugest federal domestic surveillance op carried out in any one city since the days following 9/11, if I had to guess.
Hope this helps keep you all safe, folks.

Data/encryption/InfoPath isn't really my wheelhouse, so if you have some real muscles in those areas, please chime in, especially if you think I've gotten something dangerously wrong.

I paraphrased a lot of unfamiliar information here.
Fucking *infoSEC, not "InfoPath"

Whatever the hell my phone thinks INFOPATH is
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