On 9/6/16, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 09/06/2016 05:44 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls?
I hear that this list is target of (paid) trolls and browsing it appears to support this.
I never received Georgi's original e-mail, maybe gmail spam-filtered it. I was harshly targeted as an activist around 2015 during the time I joined this lists. Activities and comnmunities I visited were obstructed heavily. I was likely on a corrupt terrorist suspect list, and I was losing my mind from absolutely everything I tried running into an issue. I think I made a big impact on the people trying to coerce me with my resourcefulness and unwillingness. I acted as if I was freely willing to die to protect what I felt was right, I was happy living with no money or resources at all due to my survival training, and I had the technical expertise to feel confident around solving any technological problem. When I went into a tor chatroom and spoke with people from this list, I was breaking out of an ISP bubble doing so. I was experiencing changing SSL certificates, website content that appeared different on home computers from public computers, phones that didn't ring when called despite having a signal, email and other messaging archives disappearing or changing, etc. Things changed a lot when I was able to use tor to contact other people. The whole city environment changed (homeless activist community perspective). Not necessarily for the better. These peoples' jobs (which they do not seem to be paid for, in my experience) seem to be to either shift people to do different things with their lives and communities, or slowly and completely destroy them, so that various activism or resources that activists could use do not happen. Because I was able to defeat internet censorship, reactivate and archive evidence from disabled computer systems, and had the confidence to pursue building a shielded room or using SDRs to look at communications when experiencing evidence of wireless compromise (usually a millionaires thing), and I share expertise with people on this list, it could have been similarly targeted. As many know, they don't seem to understand the technology at all, they just don't want people to be able to find or stop their activities of oppression and manipulation.