On Reddit’s /r/newiran someone had asked about Cybersecurity. I wanted to make some simple infographics for protestors.
Not wanting to give out dangerous information, I started double checking ideas with Iranians (who were very useful), and /r/privacy (who are a useless shitshow).
The mod for /r/privacy deleted the post marking it as a repost, because they already had information on going to protests.
They’d mentioned you can just ‘lock your phone’, because ‘the authorities can’t make you unlock it’, but the Iranians had informed me that their authorities can in fact beat people until they unlock their phone, and possibly disappear them afterwards.
/r/privacy then suggested Signal (blocked in Iran at the time), and a number of other stupid ideas, like downloading the Tor browser.
Anyway - the point is that general advice can be wrong, and wrong advice can be dangerous.
The final result is here. It covers using Briar, and how to set up a Tor node which goes through Microsoft’s servers (and importantly, appears to connect to MS, rather than Tor).
The topics are called ‘safety when walking’ and ‘safety when browsing online’, so that if authorities see the infographics, they don’t say ‘HOW TO BE SUPER SECRET AND BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT’.
So don’t go on /r/privacy, or listen to Americans.
Ne pratim nešto previše reddit, pa moram da pitam, a možda nisam ni razumeo, kakve veze imaju “Amerikaci” sa ovime što si napisao? Hoćeš da kažeš da “Amerikanci” namerno sabotiraju “/r/privacy”?
Slažem se da pogrešan savet može da bude opasan, ali ne vidim da je ovde to slučaj. Savet je beskoristan, ali ne i opasan.
Ovo kreirano uputstvo na kraju je OK, i može jednostavno da se doda na “/r/privacy” niz, zar ne?
Verovatno je mislio da ljudi sto mu odgovaraju na post nisu iz Irana, nego najverovatnije amerikanci.
A i opasan je svaki los savet u takvoj situaciji, ako im kazu da se oslanjaju na sifru u telefonu.
Koliko znam, dodao je na r/privacy ali mu je skinut post, kao duplikat. Posto su vec pisali o privatnosti za vreme Iranskih protesta, samo on tvrdi da su u tom prethodnom postu dali pogresne savete.
Aha, kapiram sada, hvala. Po mom mišljenju naslov ove teme je malo prenagljen. Ne znam kako funckioniše politika uređivanja r/privacy, al ja bih bio uporniji i probao da objasnim šta i kako treba unaprediti.
Misli da ja amerikanizovani/evrocentricni pogled na privatnost i metode zastite privatnosti. A malin je poceo ovu diskusiju na /r/privacy i obrisali su mu post, i da pokusao je da im objasni.