I live in a lefty state, NJ. It's actually more purple than you've been led to believe. My friend started a GOP Executive Committee in the town over. The town went from Dems running unopposed to almost half the town government being Republican. I asked him how I could do it my town in his Facebook group. I was immediately contacted by the county GOP. I created a town GOP page and have over 60 members in a week. Our first meeting is next week.
Take action! We can take over at the local level. Then we worry about state and national seats. Let's build a solid base they can't knock us off of. Good luck pedes!
Gab, Element, Signal, and in person are great resources.
Just a heads up on signal...
http://bigleaguepolitics.com/court-docs-show-fbi-can-intercept-encrypted-messages-from-deep-state-backed-signal-app/
A clarification about this article: This just means that on iphones, the FBI has the ability to steal the encryption key from RAM. It's more of an iphone problem than a signal issue and it has nothing to do with signal's encryption. You could have the most secure encryption scheme in the world but if the medium the keys are stored in sucks (in this case, an unlocked iphone), it's useless.
Is Telegram actually better as this article indicates?
Yes, Telegram is great. If you need a few channels to go to to start of let me know and I'll post a list. It's my fave out of the lot
No.
Thoughts on Android? Rooted and unrooted?
I think the problem stems from the way the iPhone stores the encryption keys. Android has a different architecture. The above poster is correct tho.. let the keys out and no encryption works.
Android is basically Google.
If you really want a secure phone gotta get something totally separate, but that's pricey.
In my semi-professional opinion, there isn't anything wrong with using these devices as long as you are not lulled into a false sense of security.
The GOLDEN RULE of tech is this: If it connects to the internet, it CAN be be hacked
If you truly want secure communications, the best way would probably be to communicate in some kind of code. Said code should be carefully designed to appear as normal speech, so as to avoid detection entirely.
Signal seems to be pretty rock solid where it provides coverage. If your phone or device is stolen, however, it will become a weak link to those communications. Similarly, if your device is being tapped (display watched or keys tracked) Signal's encryption will not help you.
Using things like signal will help you avoid the blanket automatic trackers. This is probably the most overall valuable application of secure systems. Know that any hacker (or otherwise...) will be able to track you down and compromise you if they are directly targeting you. There is very little you can do to avoid that.
Just some things to keep in mind.
I've come to the conclusion that if an app is available on the apple and google platforms it's compromised.
In this case its not the app. Signal is open sourced and the devs who give tneir time to develop it wouldnt put up with backdoor key releases.
The word is Signal was developed with FBI funding.
I'd go for Telegram, great interface, secure and can ping notifications to your phone