I was considering joining an org, I won’t say who, but they invited me to a protest without organizational safety briefing and protocols of safety when doing a protest. Maybe I need to touch grass and more opsec paranoid than most. I asked to join the org then had a video meeting, then was swiftly invited to protest a place not real with a strong possibility of being observed by people from that non existent place. I’m not sure if it was timing or sloppyness. I’m not close to the org so I don’t know how much they have my back if I’d personally experience a dialectial relationship with the entity in question. They also communicated over clear text.
Is this a sign of incompetence by the organizers or a honeypot?
We were not plotting anything illegal, I just don’t want things tied to my identity following me around more than they need to.
Do even Marxist orgs handle security so flippantly ? Am I worrying too much?
i believe they say so, but i don’t trust em a bit, telegram/matrix/signal would be leagues better
Worth noting that Telegram is partially closed-source and Signal has various problems (including using phone numbers as public identifiers). Matrix is a lot better (even if it occasionally has decryption issues across homeservers)
Totally, but everything is better than a service owned by Facebook (and so owned by the CIA)
definitely, just good to know that there are better alternatives that aren’t noticeably more difficult to use than Telegram or Signal when security is essential